Fathers & daughters
Articles
- Fathers and Lovers : Three Australian Novels
Discusses three Australian novels which ‘are strikingly similar in that they have at their heart a male figure who acts in a distructive way towards the women around him; all three of the male protagonists disguise their egotistic aggression under…
1 October 1982 - ‘His Grief Is the Plague’ : Poetry of Loss and the Risk of Losing One’s Readers
This article discusses the book Lalomanu, a selection of poetry by Spanish-Australian writer, Jorge Salavert, written in response to the death of his daughter Clea in the tsumani that struck Samoa just after dawn on 29 September 2009. Salavert’s…
1 November 2013