This special issue applies nuanced critical attention to a number of Australian disabled authors, and representations of disabled people, in Australian literature throughout the twentieth…
How does poetry deal with disability? At the level of theme and voice, Australian poetry – including the theorising and criticism of it – has…
In this paper I argue that extending the illness/recovery narrative through the transmedial mode allows for more diverse representation from patients and survivors, leading to…
Through examining Jessica White’s hybrid memoir Hearing Maud and my own work Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History, I…
Shirley Hazzard discusses her approach to writing fiction.
The disruptiveness of The Transit of Venus can clearly be detected in Hazzard's treatment of history; in the way she explores the connections between the…
In one of Patrick White's novels it is said that to the poor poverty is never a theory only a fact. And something analogous may…