Reviews
Articles
- Review of Christina Stead: A Biography, by Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley's biography of Christina Stead has generated very divergent responses in its early reviews. Michael Wilding in the Australian Book Review (152, July 1993)…
1 May 1994 - What Falls from View? On Re-Reading Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise
‘Reading is a visual practice. It always involves a scene. What scenes do white readers of Plains of Promise gaze upon as they hold its…
1 November 2010 - Review of The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer, by Oliné Keese, edited by Jenna Mead
This critical edition of The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, A Lifer, produced by Jenna Mead, is a comprehensive…
30 September 2022 - Review of Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles
Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles is an erudite and perceptive account of how the literature of Australia and New Zealand entwine…
30 September 2022 - Review of Polities and Poetics: Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature by Adelle Sefton-Rowston
Notwithstanding criticism of the project or process of reconciliation literary scholars have continued to use it as a productive framework for analysing (mostly) non-Indigenous authored…
30 September 2022 - Review of Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives, edited by Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney.
Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney’s edited collection, Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2021) offers a series of case studies on how the…
11 December 2022 - Review of Learning to Live with Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation by Blanche Verlie
Published as part of the Routledge Focus series on Environment and Sustainability, Blanche Verlie’s Learning to Live with Climate Change (2021) explores the ways we…
11 December 2022 - Review of Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond
Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond. The Miegunyah Press, 2022.
2 May 2023
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