Issue Details: First known date: 2016... vol. 7 no. 1 2016 of Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia est. 2009 Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Hidden Fortunes of Colonial Australian Popular Fiction : Women in Mary Fortune's "Dora Carleton", Alice Michel , single work criticism
'The Australian fictional archives contain a wealth of fictions from the colonial period, most of them serially published in journals, and often neglected in Australian literary history. However, fiction by colonial women writers reveals much about women’s social status at the time and early feminist claims. Among them can be found Mary Fortune’s (“Waif Wander”) serial novel “Dora Carleton,” published in The Australian Journal in 1866. The aim of this paper is to reflect on Australia’s neglected wealth of colonial women’s fictions and their potential re-evaluation as more than examples of the minor genres they seem to belong to, through the instance of the recovery of Fortune’s neglected text. This paper shows that the serial, anchored as it is in the historical context of the colony of Victoria, uses the conventions of the popular genre of the sensation novel to question gender differences, and that furthermore it can be read as an early New Woman novel.' (Publication abstract)
"A Man Apart :" The Unwritten Tragedy of Henry Lawson, John Barnes , single work criticism

' When Henry Lawson died in 1922, he was publicly honoured as a "national writer," but for the last twenty years of his life he had been a "derelict artist," caught in a cycle of poverty, alcoholism and depression, humiliated, frustrated, often ashamed of the work that he was producing and haunted by the sense of the writer that he might have been. Almost a century later, there is no biography that adequately portrays the man and the circumstances that contributed to his collapse. Underlying this article, which considers aspects of his struggle to realize his literary ambitions, is the assumption that because Lawson's work has such a strong autobiographical element, the way in which his life is read inevitably colours how his writing is read. Until there is a biography in which the tragic dimension of his life is fully recognized, our understanding of Lawson's literary achievement remains incomplete.' (Publication abstract)

Presence, Meaning, and the Other in Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo : The Well in the Shadow, Barnabás Baranyi , single work criticism
'This article reflects on the discursive strategies deployed by Katharine Susannah Pritchard's Coonardoo to undermine the then-dominant way of referring to Aboriginal-white relations, especially those involving sexuality. The novel does this through establishing Aboriginal culture as resembling a "presence culture" in Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's terminology, while white-Australian culture is representative of a "meaning culture." Thus Coonardoo sets up a relationship between the two cultures that is reminiscent of the poststructuralist self/Other dichotomy. However, in contrast to most authors reflecting on the novel's representation of Aboriginal Otherness, this paper contends that Prichard's use of this dualism positions the two cultures in a way that allows for meaningful cultural exchange between them, rather than presenting these worldviews as incompatible with one another.' (Publication abstract)
'Money Is a Steal' : Christina Stead’s Critique of Finance Capitalism in House of All Nations, Michael Ackland , single work criticism

'Stead composed House of All Nations (1938) at a time of unprecedented economic and political crisis in the West, and the urgency of this situation is reflected in the speed and scope of this composition, and in the major target of her satire: finance capitalism. Her depiction of this Marxist concept, as well as specific allusions to the master's writings, are examined in detail to demonstrate her ideological position and putative aims.' (Publication abstract)

Interview with Jessica L. Wilkinson, Pradeep Trikha (interviewer), single work interview
Anne Brewster, Giving This Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia, Cornelis Martin Renes , single work review
— Review of Giving This Country a Memory : Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia Anne Brewster , 2015 multi chapter work interview ;
A Portrait of the Artist as a Wild Man : Michael Wilding's Growing Wild, Nataša Kampmark , single work review
— Review of Growing Wild Michael Wilding , 2016 single work autobiography ;

'In 1963, Michael Wilding left Oxford for Sydney, moving from an imperial center of British education to a far-flung colonial outpost beyond the daily reach of The Times, bringing with him "a generalised left wing politics" and "a working class resentment of exclusion from privilege" (161). In addition, his intellectual baggage contained a firm decision to become a writer. It was Wilding who would "in the smithy of his soul" help forge the literary conscience of the nation whose renowned man of letters he was to become.

'Growing Wild is a memoir which reads like a Künstlerroman in postmodernist style, tracing the trajectory of intellectual awakening and artistic development of the protagonist as he negotiates relationships with his family and the politics and history of both his native and adoptive countries. Wilding's memoir picks up where Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man leaves off the protagonist-in self-exile after he has left a restrictive environment for a freedom to become an artist, a writer. It begins in epic fashion, in medias res or "Among Leavisites" rather, landing the protagonist in the midst of F. R. Leavis's acolytes at University of Sydney's English Department and then, in broken chronology, takes the reader back to the first words on the slate in the English Midlands.' (Publication abstract)

On Fencing, Corner Groceries, and Running Barefoot : A Memoir of a Pre-Baby Boomer, Jean Page , single work review
— Review of The Taciturn Man : And Other Tales of Australia Geoffrey Gibson , 2011 single work autobiography ;

'It is not so common these days to come across what Bill Ashcroft might call a "white settler" account of growing up in the Australian bush. In Taciturn Man and Other Tales of Australia Geoffrey Gibson, a pre Baby-Boomer, of the same generation and rural provenance as Les Murray, writes of growing up in the 1940s in rural New South Wales, and also, the earlier rural life of his father Alexander (1905-1965). Alexander Gibson, the "taciturn" man of this tribute by memoir published by the Ann Arbor-based Modern History Press, was born in Somerset, and one of a number of English who migrated to Australia sometime after WWI. (D. H. Lawrence had also considered migrating but only stopped for six weeks to gather material for and write, or help write, two novels.)' (Publication abstract)

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