James Boyce James Boyce i(A119046 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Soul Shifts : Reflections on Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 James Boyce , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 460 2023; (p. 27-28)

'Thirty years ago, wanting to probe deeper into the question of what it meant to make home in Tasmania, I enrolled to do my honours year at the University of Tasmania. During a discussion with the secretary of the History Department about my partially formed dissertation ideas, she urged me to read a thesis by a recent graduate whose work had greatly impressed her: one Richard Flanagan. When I read the thesis and the book that came out of it, the result can best be described as a soul shift. It was not so much the information I gained but that Flanagan’s approach to Tasmania’s past released an imaginative flow in my own research, allowing it to slowly metamorphose over fifteen years into my first book, Van Diemen’s Land. I share this anecdote, not just to highlight what was lost when universities sacked most of their administrative staff, but to show how seriously Richard Flanagan has always taken history.' (Introduction)          

1 Power in Memory : The Tasmanian Environment Movement's Founding Stories James Boyce , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Breathing Space 2021; (p. 80-85)
'Every 26 January Australians are reminded of the importance of origin stories. It has become clear that the way we tell our founding narratives shapes how we understand the past and imagine the future.   And what is evident in nations is also true of organisations. story of organisations and movements. The mythic power integral to an origin story is evident in the environmental movement in Tasmania, where, in the past 20 years. the story of the Franklin River campaign has assumed epic status.' (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Frankenfish James Boyce (presenter), 2021 23441146 2021 single work podcast

'Richard Flanagan's new work, Toxic, is a startling exposé on Tasmania's salmon farming industry. From genetically altered 'frankenfish' to the use of dangerous chemicals to turn 'dead-grey flesh a marketable red', the industrial machinations uncovered in Flanagan's new work are stomach-churning. As James Boyce writes in his review, 'After the publication of Toxic, I doubt Tasmania will ever be the same again.'' (Production summary)

1 Transforming the National Imaginaion James Boyce , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , July no. 179 2021; (p. 56-60)

'The article looks at the issues surrounding the depiction of Indigenous Australians in the book "Dark Emu" by Bruce Pascoe. Topics discussed include the failure of Pascoe to ask the Indigenous people about the practices and lifestyles of older Aborigines according to a scholarly critique, call of Pascoe for change in farming practices and lifestyle choices in the book, and failure of Pascoe to provide carefully crafted, respectful and informed stories.' (Abstract)

1 A Forensic Eye on the Past James Boyce , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1 May 2021; (p. 17)
1 2 y separately published work icon Inga Clendinnen : Selected Writings James Boyce (editor), Inga Clendinnen , Melbourne : La Trobe University Press , 2021 18776639 2021 selected work criticism

'Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia’s greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger’s Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. The rich array is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen’s life and evolving thought. 

'Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘ability to write serious history for a general readership was unrivalled in this country … Her writings are an enduring testament to the truth that while we might “live within the narrow moving band of time we call the present … the secret engine of our present is our past, with its plastic memories, its malleable moralities, its wreathing dreams of desirable futures”.’ ' (Publication summary)

1 Damascene Subversion James Boyce , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , December/January no. 162 2019; (p. 77-90)
'There is no more significant figure in the history of the Christian Church than the 1st-century Jewish teacher and tentmaker, Saul of Tarsus (commonly known by his Latin name of Paul). Despite not personally knowing the Galilean crucified as a political prisoner on a Roman cross nearly 2000 years ago, St Paul is considered an apostle of Jesus Christ, equal in status to the original 12 and arguably above even Peter, James and John in his influence on the early religious movement that would become Christianity.' (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Fugitive History : The Art of Julie Gough Julie Gough , Brigita Ozolins , James Boyce , Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018 11780174 2018 selected work autobiography biography essay

'In a rush of remembrance that seemed longer than my own life, I recognised that was who we are, that there was a term for it, for our family-Aboriginal. At that point I began the long process of trying to understand what had happened that we had almost forgotten ourselves. Fugitive History: The Art of Julie Gough celebrates Gough's art practice, which has been central to her search for, and creation of, an identity for over twenty years. As an Aboriginal woman whose family from Tasmania had moved to Victoria and left behind connections to place and history, this search became as much about negotiating absence, distance, and lack, as discovery. This title includes essays by Brigita Ozolins, artist and senior lecturer at the Tasmanian College of the Arts; James Boyce, author of Born Bad and Van Diemen's Land, which won the Tasmanian Book Prize; and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Professorial Fellow and Chair of Global Art History in the Department of Art, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham. ' (Publication summary)

1 Origin Story : Dancing with Strangers James Boyce , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2017;

'The publication of Inga Clendinnen’s Dancing with Strangers in 2003 gave Australia what the country desperately needed for the new millennium: a founding story in which the human beings who encountered each other in 1788 could finally become part of the national imagination.' (Introduction)

1 Introduction James Boyce , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dancing with Strangers : The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788 2017;
1 Launch : Pete Hay's Physick James Boyce , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 6 2016;

— Review of Physick P. R. Hay , 2016 selected work poetry
1 James Boyce James Boyce , 2016 extract criticism
— Appears in: A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush 2016; (p. 44-45)

Extraced from Van Dieman's Land : A History, Black Inc., Melbourne 2008

1 National Narratives and Local Impacts : The Legacy of the Australian History Wars in Tasmania James Boyce , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 45-56)
1 Robinson's Journals James Boyce , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , April vol. 7 no. 1 2010; (p. 21.1-21.2)

— Review of Reading Robinson : Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission' 2008 anthology criticism
Boyce discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the anthology, consisting of essays contributed from fourteen writers, which is designed to assist readers to interpret Friendly Mission, published in 1966.
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