Writer-reader relations
Articles
- Establishing an Australian/Caribbean Alliance: Stories Passed on by Penny van Toorn and Olive Senior
Brings the work of Caribbean poet and Australian scholar Penny van Toorn into conversation. 'Given van Toom's emphasis on the tactics of Indigenous engagement with…
1 November 2010 - Indigenous Sovereignty and the Crisis of Whiteness in Alexis Wright’s Carpenteria
Discusses Wright's 'foregrounding of whiteness as an object of critique'. 'Carpentaria breaks new ground by making whiteness one of its main subjects and by its…
1 November 2010 - 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 - Interview with David Malouf
Brigid Rooney interviews David Malouf.
1 May 2010 - Treating Dora in His Natural Life
This article concentrates on the characterisation of Dora, the heroine in the serialised version of His Natural Life. The author wants ‘to cast new…
1 May 2003 - Back to Whitton Week: Tracking Tom Keneally's Career
So at fifty years, what can we say? An easy conclusion would be that Keneally is best understood (as he himself has suggested from time…
30 May 2015 - The Making of Thomas Keneally
The making of Thomas Keneally can be conventionally addressed in regard to his Irish Catholic working-class ancestry, his discovery of a vocation that was not…
30 May 2015
Contributors
- Anne Brewster
- Anne Collett
- Ian Henderson
- David Malouf
- Peter Pierce
- Alison Ravenscroft
- Brigid Rooney
- Paul Sharrad