Michèle Grossman Michèle Grossman i(A14845 works by)
Born: Established: 1957 ;
Gender: Female
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1 4 y separately published work icon Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity Michèle Grossman , Netherlands : Rodopi , 2013 Z1938856 2013 single work criticism

'Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives - particularly when cross-culturally produced or edited - can remain haunted by colonially grounded assumptions about orality and literacy.

Through an examination of key moments in the theorizing of orality and literacy and key texts in cross-culturally produced Indigenous life-writing, Entangled Subjects explores how some of these works can sustain, rather than trouble, the frontier zone established by modernity in relation to 'talk' and 'text'. Yet contemporary Indigenous vernaculars offer radical new approaches to how we might move beyond the orality-literacy 'frontier', and how modernity and the a-modern are productively entangled in the process. ' (Source: Angus & Robertson website www.angusrobertson.com.au)
1 The Itinerant Text : Walking between the Lines with Stephen Muecke and Mark Minchinton Michèle Grossman , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 78-90)
1 We Are All Learners Now Michèle Grossman , 2010 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Spring no. 29 2010; (p. 137-147)
1 When They Write What We Read : Unsettling Indigenous Australian Life-Writing Michèle Grossman , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , September no. 39/40 2006; Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 220-235) Michele Grossman argues that life writing 'has proved a particularly attractive genre for Indigenous Australians wishing to re-vision and re-write historical accounts of invasion, settlement and cross-cultural relationships from individual, family and community-based Indigenous Australian memories, perspectives and experiences'. Grossman draws particularly on Gladys Gilligan's writing of her time at the Moore River Settlement in Susan Maushart's Sort of a Place Like Home: The Moore River Native Settlement (1993).
1 Risk, Roguery and Revelation Michèle Grossman , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 1 no. 2 2006; (p. 10)
— Review of Carpentaria Alexis Wright , 2006 single work novel
1 Reciprocal Bonds : Re-Thinking Orality and Literacy in Critical Perspectives on Indigenous Australian Life-Writing Michèle Grossman , 2005 single work essay
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 29 no. 1-4 2005; (p. 115-129)
1 y separately published work icon Entangled Subjects: Talk and Text in Collaborative Indigenous Australian Life Writing Michèle Grossman , Melbourne : 2004 Z1306606 2004 single work thesis The cultural and political practices of authorial and editorial collaboration in the Indigenous Australian life-writing genre have emerged as key sites in relation to the textual management and performance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous identity, authorship and authority in cross-cultural contexts. Various editorial, authorial and representational strategies brought to bear in these works offer insights and pose dilemmas, both theoretical and lived, about how European colonial oppositions of 'self' and 'other' have played out in the contexts of literacy and and its cultural 'others'. This thesis critiques both practices within and critical discourses on Indigenous Australian life-writing texts that variously reinforce, complicate or challenge 'talk' and 'text' as divided territories. It analyses how these domains intersect, and considers the implications of this for our understanding of how and why the terrain of cross-cultural, collaborative life writing has simultaneously been one of constraint and possibility for rethinking oralities, literacies and modernities in the present.
1 1 Beyond Orality and Literacy: Textuality, Modernity and Representation in Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley Michèle Grossman , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 81 2004; (p. 59-71; notes 208-210) Boundary Writing : An Exploration of Race, Culture, and Gender Binaries in Contemporary Australia 2006; (p. 149-169) 'In a number of collaborative works of Indigenous life-writing, the historical and theoretical entanglements between orality and literacy ... the spheres of "talk" and "text" ... underwrite the limits and possibilities of such works as part of the broader project of contemporary cross-cultural representation. Paddy Roe's and Stephen Muecke's collaboration in Gularabula has been extremely influential in this field in Australia. Their work has shaped cross-cultural approaches to the genre since its publication in1983. This article revisits Gularabula in order to examine the relationship between talk and text in collaborative Indigenous/non-Indigenous works, and considers some critical responses to these efforts.' (p.59)
1 One Man's History Is Another Woman's Lie Michèle Grossman , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , October no. 30 2003;
— Review of Finding Ullagundahi Island Fabienne Bayet , 2001 single work novel ; A Little Bird Told Me : Family Secrets, Necessary Lies Lynette Russell , 2002 single work biography
1 After Aboriginalism : Power, Knowledge and Indigenous Australian Critical Writing Michèle Grossman , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Blacklines : Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians 2003; (p. 1-14) Introduction to Blacklines.
1 11 y separately published work icon Blacklines : Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians Michèle Grossman (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2003 Z1072525 2003 anthology criticism essay (taught in 11 units)
1 2 Bad Aboriginal Writing : Editing, Aboriginality, Textuality Michèle Grossman , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin : Fine Writing & Provocative Ideas , vol. 60 no. 3 2001; (p. 152-165)
1 Untitled Michèle Grossman , 2000 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 224 2000; (p. 5)
1 Reach on out to the other side : Grog War and Plains of Promise Michèle Grossman , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 17 no. 1 1998; (p. 81-87)
1 Mamatoto : Consuming Difference Denise Cuthbert , Michèle Grossman , 1996 single work prose
— Appears in: Motherlode 1996; (p. 156-162)
1 First-Degree Troublemaking Michèle Grossman , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 5 no. 1 1993; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama
1 3 y separately published work icon Australian Women's Book Review AWBR Sara White (editor), Michelle De Kretser (editor), Barbara Brook (editor), Michèle Grossman (editor), Barbara Brook (editor), Carole Ferrier (editor), Susan Carson (editor), Shirley Tucker (editor), Carole Ferrier (editor), 1989 Melbourne : Australian Women's Book Review , 1989-1992 Z911078 1989 periodical (62 issues)

Before the establishment of the Australian Women's Book Review, new books on feminist issues from small presses were mainly reviewed by a few small magazines such as Hecate. In the established literary magazines or other mainstream publications such books were reviewed inadequately or not at all. In 1989, hoping to provide a stable periodical for a more comprehensive review of new women's writing from Australia and overseas, Sara White and Michelle de Kretser produced the first issues of the Australian Women's Book Review.

From the first issues, the editors aimed to publish 'accessible, intelligent writing that will offer a range of books by women to a broad readership'. Reviews addressed a range of general areas such as fiction, poetry, history, biography, health, sexuality, social and cultural issues, and literature for children and adolescents. Regular review essays and feature articles provided deeper analyses and special issues have concentrating on geographical regions such as New Zealand, India, Africa and Singapore.

During the 1990s, the Australian Women's Book Review secured several advertisers and sponsors to support production costs and provide payment to contributors. The magazine's publication by the Victoria University of Technology (1992-1997) also provided some security, but the failure of an application to the Literature Board in 1997 caused some concern for the future of the magazine. Closure was avoided when Carole Ferrier offered to publish the Australian Women's Book Review under the auspices of Hecate at the University of Queensland.

Since moving to the University of Queensland, the Australian Women's Book Review has gone online (in 2000) and is now freely available on the internet. It remains the only Australian book review in print or online that is devoted to women's writing.
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