Political fiction

The form of Kangaroo has found few admirers. John Middleton Murry described it as 'a chaotic book. It has many passages of great descriptive beauty…

In this first critical essay on the work of Wendy Scarfe, Bode argues that Scarfe’s novels, in particular Miranda, both represent and seek to…

Louis Esson is on record as having agreed with the notion that literature is a mirror held up to nature, and The Time Is Not…

Nowadays, it is hardly necessary to ask people if they believe that 'the end justifies the means', because practically everyone does believe it. Probably, the…

Uses feminist theories and concepts of the feminine sublime to investigate Dorothy Hewett’s writing (particularly her poetry) and her development as a writer, concentrating on…

Discusses recent fiction of 'explicit political orientation'—Linda Jaivin's The Infernal Optimist, Andrew McGahan's Underground and Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist—that point to 'a…

The Australian government’s responses to the September 11 attacks introduced a new theme into Australian literature. Novels such as Andrew McGahan’s Underground and Richard Flanagan’s…

This essay seeks to boost Frank Moorhouse’s credentials as a commentator on class consciousness and labour politics, focusing on the oblique representation of labor tension…