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Articles
- Challenging Voices : Tracing the Problematic Role of Testimony in Political Change
Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Politics of Recognition, by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith is a challenging and ambitious book. It should be read because it raises so many important and urgent questions. But it must be read…
1 October 2006 - Person, Persona and Product: Henry Kendall and ‘Steele Rudd’
Arthur Hoey Davis, a diffident twenty-six-year-old clerk, invented 'Steele Rudd' in 1894 as the nom de plume for a rowing column. The pseudonym grew, like the Beanstalk and Pinocchio's nose rolled into one, into a persona over which its author…
1 May 1996 - ‘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 by that final statement/ realisation, that 'in this place/[I'm] talking with Yagan's head.'?1 What I'd…
1 October 2000