Australian literature - Funding & patronage

Stewart discusses the economic condition and patronage of writers and the literary marketplace in colonial Australia, focusing particularly on the tropes of the 'Neglected Writer'…

Weller discusses the relationship between Aboriginal literature and (white) academia, and his approach to writing Aboriginality, particularly in terms of characterisation, form and style.

From the vantage point of the present, the idea that Australian writing needs standard-bearers (self-chosen advocates, driven by their own inner vision) probably strikes the…

Small presses, little magazines. 'Why small?' Walter Stone would always ask, 'why little Why begin from a posture of defeat. Why believe the people who…

As you will know from our editorial in the previous issue, ALS has been forced this year to deal with a serious shortfall in funding…

We have decided to vary our usual procedure and include an editorial for this issue since Australian Literary Studies is at a point at which…

In 1983, a decade after the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts Board (AAB), the Australia Council published a report that presented two competing accounts of…