Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 ‘Re-defining Yourself in Some Other Terms’: Kefala’s Self-Referential Weavings
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    y separately published work icon Antigone Kefala : New Australian Modernities Elizabeth McMahon (editor), Brigitta Olubas (editor), Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2021 23256375 2021 anthology criticism

    'Antigone Kefala is one of the most significant of the Australian writers who have come from elsewhere; it would be difficult to overstate the significance of her life and work in the culture of this nation. Over the last half-century, her poetry and prose have reshaped and expanded Australian literature and prompted us to re-examine its premises and capacities. From the force of her poetic imagery and the cadences of her phrases and her sentences to the large philosophical and historical questions she poses and to which she responds, Kefala has generated in her writing new ways of living in time, place and language. Across six collections of poetry and five prose works, themselves comprising fiction, non-fiction, essays and diaries, she has mapped the experience of exile and alienation alongside the creativity of a relentless reconstitution of self. Kefala is also a cultural visionary. From her rapturous account of Sydney as the place of her arrival in 1959, to her role in developing diverse writing cultures at the Australia Council, to the account of her own writing life amongst a community of friends and artists in Sydney Journals (2008), she has reimagined the ways we live and write in Australia.'

    Source : publisher's blurb

    Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2021
    pg. 69-88
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