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…
1 November 2013 - Recent Australian Autobiography: A Review Essay1 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
What is the speaker doing, wandering in a patch of remnant coastal bush close to a large new shopping centre? And what does he mean…
1 October 2000 - Italian Immigrants in Australian Fiction 1900-19501 May 1993
- Literary Criticism in Australia: A Change of Critical Paradigms?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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