y separately published work icon Australian Literary Studies periodical issue   peer reviewed assertion
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... vol. 31 no. 2 2016 2016 of Australian Literary Studies est. 1963 Australian Literary Studies
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Notes

  • Content indexing in process.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Interview with Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Anne Brewster (interviewer), single work interview
Anne Brewster interviews Kerry Reed-Gilbert who talks frankly about everything from her childhood being reared by her father's sister Joyce (Mummy) in Condobolin, after her father's (Kevin Gilbert) conviction of murder; to her views on the political and social aspects of Aboriginality and racism.
Note: Interview conducted on 1-2 November 2014 in Canberra.
One Decade, Two Accounts: The Aboriginal Arts Board and ‘Aboriginal Literature’, 1973-1983, Michelle Kelly , Tim Rowse , single work criticism
'... In this essay we set this internally dissonant review in three contexts: the 1960s critical response to the first works of Kath Walker and Colin Johnson; the AAB’s and other Commonwealth agencies’ critique of assimilation and defence of ‘tradition’; and the rise of an assertive urban Aboriginal constituency for the AAB. These contexts help define and describe the terms in which the AAB supported ‘Aboriginal literature’ in the period 1973 to 1983. ...'
Place, History and Story: Tony Birch and the Yarra River, Carolyn Masel , Matthew Ryan , single work criticism
'This essay examines the three Yarra River stories in Tony Birch’s short fiction collections. ‘The Sea of Tranquillity’ ‘The Chocolate Empire’ and ‘The Toecutters’ all question the historical inscription of the Yarra that favours the culturally dominant account by placing it in relation to alternative stories. The torsion engendered by this questioning is apparent in the stories themselves. They are simultaneously discussions of class-based social exclusion and counter-stories of settlement; settled places are re-inscribed with meanings and histories obscured by the dominant account of ‘settlement’, which it thus critiques. The structure of the contemporary short story, to reveal a truth buried under the mundane details of life, aids Birch’s purpose. The form enacts a propensity to doubling, twinning and contrasting the familiar and the strange, or being at once in the dominant reality of the settler-colonial culture and, by social imposition, in the situation of the other. Hence, Birch’s stories open into narratives drawn from a number of socially marginalised groups, according to class, gender, geography or age. In Birch’s own account of his disillusionment with the institutionally-based academic writing of the post-history wars environment he speaks of embarking on an alternative project to ‘put meat on the bones of history’, a project which involves turning from the Historian’s history to ‘the way that fiction deals with the past and its role in documenting history’: to bring history and story together (‘Trouble’ 235, 241). This essay traces that process in the three Yarra stories.' (Abstract)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Last amended 17 May 2016 10:50:11
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X