Postmodern criticism

Michael Wilding's 'Canal Run', a story from The West Midland Underground (1975), fuses two of his powerful early influences, D.H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe. In so doing it introduces a number of themes which come to typify his creative writing…

In The Newspaper of Claremont Street the major character, the one who has the reader's sympathy, deliberately leaves an acquaintance to die of exposure. The central character in 'Two Men Running', again one in whom the reader has developed a…

Politics has been described in many ways, most of them unflattering and all of them seemingly opposed to whatever poetry may be. Politics is the "art of the possible". As Kath Walker, Oodgeroo made Aboriginal literature possible in 1964 with…