Re-Writing Woman: Genre Politics and Female Identity in Kate Grenville’s Dreamhouse

Gothic fiction, at least as it developed in Britain during the late eighteenth . and early nineteenth centuries, typically stages an encounter with difference. In this encounter an established set of social relations is shown to be premised on events…

Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to 'tone down' her narrative, and 'religious, political and sex-problem passages' made Henry Lawson 'blush'. The 'trouble' with Sybylla…

‘What I aim to show in this essay is how and with what personal and political force the narrative re-presents the reading process itself, how it demands the reader’s active co-operation and interpretation, to the point of entrapping us in…

In 1998 Michelle Grossman’s overview of Indigenous women’s writing explored the significant contribution that life writing had made to the country’s literatures and pondered where younger authors might take Indigenous writing in the twenty-first century. This essay examines the work…