Migrant literature & writers

‘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…

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…

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 Epilogue to Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958 (1990) Dorothy Hewett returns to her 'first house', the house of childhood at Lambton Downs. The…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…