Alienation

In this essay I want to use Riders in the Chariot to suggest another way of reading the politics of White's modernism. The world of…

Regardless of whether they accepted or utterly rejected their imposed role as members of God's police and gatekeepers of the social class structure, women have…

Displaced from all that is familiar, the colonial subject experiences disorientation; a confusion which is represented in the dislocating experience of emigration and the ambivalent…

At a crucial point in 'The Bathe: a grotesque', the opening story of a series which Henry Handel Richardson named 'Growing Pains: sketches of girlhood'…

Putting Tsiolkas’s works into a wider context of international writing, the essay is concerned with ‘the fictional tradition that either deploys the pornographic, or evokes…

While Thomas Keneally himself generously acknowledges that 'the critics made me' (Pierce, Interview), few Australian authors - in the course of long, productive and internationally…

Wallace-Crabbe discusses the ways in which the stories of Joe Wilson and His Mates connect to produce a larger unified work. Lawson’s self-analysis in this…

This essay is an exploration of the suburban imaginary in David Ireland's The Glass Canoe (1976), Bruce Dawe's Condolences of the Season (1971) and Christos…