Migrant literature & writers
Articles
- The Asian Conspiracy: Deploying Voice/Deploying Story
‘This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert…
1 October 2010 - Review of Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective, edited by Gaetano Rando and Gerry Turcotte
Diasporic approaches have been mobilised in the past decade to provide a more complex understanding of the history of the Italian nation and of its…
1 June 2009 - ‘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…
1 November 2013 - Recent Australian Autobiography: A Review Essay
In the Epilogue to Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958 (1990) Dorothy Hewett returns to her 'first house', the house of childhood at Lambton Downs. The…
1 October 1992 - About Face: Asian-Australians at Home
An overview of recent poetry and prose of Asian-Australian writers as they perform an artistic ‘about-face’ to reflect on racialised depictions of minority ethnicities.
1 May 2002 - ‘Talking with Yagan’s Head’: The Poetry of John Mateer
Begins with the provocation that Mateer's poetry can be fruitfully read through his poem 'Talking with Yagan's head'. 'Yagan's head ... is not simply an…
1 October 2000 - Italian Immigrants in Australian Fiction 1900-1950
The Italians who were written into Australian literary settings rarely tell us about the problems of what it means to be uprooted and to cultivate…
1 May 1993 - Literary Criticism in Australia: A Change of Critical Paradigms?
For an outsider who began to familiarise himself with the literature from Australia and the concomitant critical debate on its history, its nature and status…
1 June 1991 - Woods, Memories and Dreams: David Martin
David Martin (1915-1997) was one of the most versatile among the so-called migrant writers in Australia in the second half of the twentieth century and…
1 November 2014
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- Merlinda Bobis
- Clarissa Clò
- Roslyn Pesman Cooper
- Michael Heald
- Michael Jacklin
- Lyn Jacobs
- Irmtraud Petersson
- Dieter Riemenschneider
- Gillian Whitlock