Annee Lawrence Annee Lawrence i(A17071 works by) (a.k.a. Anne E. Lawrence)
Gender: Female
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1 An Exquisite Subtlety: Annee Lawrence Reviews ‘What the River Told Me’ by Jane Skelton Annee Lawrence , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
— Review of What the River Told Me Jane Skelton , 2021 selected work poetry

'In Jane Skelton’s What the river told me there is a strong connection to place, landscape, the natural environment, and the human trace on it.'  (Introduction)
1 Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis : on Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Annee Lawrence Annee Lawrence , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 26 2020-2021;
— Review of Navigable Ink Jennifer Mackenzie , 2020 selected work poetry

'Jennifer Mackenzie’s collection of poems Navigable Ink takes inspiration from, reveres and amplifies the life events, writings, reflections and concerns with history of the Indonesian author and activist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006). The idea of writing the poems emerged after Mackenzie was asked to translate Pramoedya’s Arus Balik (Cross-Currents) in 1993.' (Introduction)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Colour of Things Unseen Annee Lawrence , Twickenham : Aurora Metro Books , 2019 18158093 2019 single work novel romance

'When Adi leaves his village in Indonesia to take up an art scholarship in Australia, he arrives in the bewildering Sydney art world, determined to succeed. Following his first solo exhibition at a chic art gallery, Adi dares to reveal his true feelings for his spirited friend, Lisa, and a passionate relationship unfolds. But will their differing expectations of one another drive them apart?

'This is a deeply felt love story between people -- of different nations, cultures and religions -and the unseen impact of local and global events on individual lives.'  (Publication summary)
1 Australian Writing and the Contemporary : Are We There Yet? Annee Lawrence , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , April vol. 22 no. 1 2016; (p. 243–268) 'Australia’s geographical location (within ‘Asia’)—seen as a negative into the twenty-first century when the nation defined itself as culturally and aspirationally linked to the major Euro-American metropolitan cultural centres (the ‘West’)—must now be reevaluated. After two hundred years of white settlement and of turning its back on the region in which it is located, some Australian writers are writing texts that illuminate an aspect of Australian literature that is in transition, becoming, by definition, in, of, and with the region as well as in, of, and with present time. Art historian Terry Smith’s theory of the three currents of contemporary art, particularly the third current, suggests a new paradigm, a potential break from modernism, and a different kind of entanglement and interconnection in a world that is witnessing shifts in world power, voluntary and involuntary mass movements of people, and real time global communication technologies. Adrian Snodgrass and David Coyne’s application of hermeneutical theory to the architectural design studio via the metaphor of excursion and return illuminates some imaginative intersections, understandings and energies in three texts by Australian authors—Michelle De Kretser, Chi Vu and Jennifer Mackenzie. In Smith’s terms too, the texts perform original leaps of the imagination in their diversity, freshness, and ability to surprise and invite questions about literature’s potential to stir up prior understandings and invite new ways of being in the present. In terms of Giorgio Agamben’s definition of the contemporary, the three texts bring the reader to a plurality and intercultural connectedness that we have yet to fully recognise and live. They represent a line of flight towards a literary imaginary in Australian writing that is contemporary, locally grounded, but also regionally and globally entangled. ' (Publication abstract)
1 Excruciating Moments : On Writing Cross-Cultural Agency in the Novel Annee Lawrence , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Writing , vol. 12 no. 3 2015; (p. 339-348)

'This paper is about the pitfalls, risks and challenges of writing a cross-cultural novel set in Sydney (Australia) and Central Java (Indonesia), in which the central character is a young man from a village in Central Java. I draw on Snodgrass and Coyne's (2006, Interpretation in Architecture: Design as Way of Thinking) application of Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics to the architectural design studio and study of Asian cultures to argue that writing across cultures, like the creative writing process itself, is to enter into a process of understanding with difference and an unfamiliar other. By adding shame, terror and fear of failure to this process I aim to illuminate their potential for sustaining cross-cultural writing that remains ethically and responsibly engaged even as it crosses borders. I argue that shame can play a productive role as a component of reflexivity in writing cross-cultural agency in the novel, and that courting failure is to destabilise certainty and embrace possibility.' (Publication abstract)
1 "A Meaningful Freedom" : Women, Work and the Promise of Modernity in a Reading of the Letters of Raden Adjeng Kartini (java) Alongside Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (Australia) Annee Lawrence , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 41 no. 1-2 2015; (p. 18-36) 'Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879-1904) and Stella Miles Franklin (1879-1954) were contemporaries. They were born in 1879-Kartini in Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Miles Franklin in the Monaro region of New South Wales, Australia. They did not share a common language-I doubt they ever even heard of each other-but at the end of the nineteenth century they both blazed a path of resistance against the expectations of their respective societies that they would marry, have a family, and live lives dependent upon a husband. Although just twentyone at the turn of the century, both dreamed of a career and the social and economic freedom to make meaningful life choices on their own terms. Both saw leaving their homelands as offering the possibility of making their dreams a reality.' (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon Signs of Change : My Autobiography and the History of Australian Theatre of the Deaf 1973-83 Nola Colefax , Annee Lawrence , Parramatta : Deafness Resources Australia , 1999 Z1220803 1999 single work autobiography The book interweaves the personal history of Nola Colefax with the history, culture and development of the deaf community and the Australian Theatre of the Deaf.
1 1 y separately published work icon I Always Wanted to Be a Tap Dancer Annee Lawrence (editor), Parramatta : NSW Women's Advisory Council , 1989 Z1529491 1989 anthology autobiography
1 The Way to Where We Want to Go i "Continuing our search", Annee Lawrence , 1985 single work poetry
— Appears in: Minute to Midnight : New Writing for Peace and Disarmament 1985; (p. 59-65)
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