Bob Hodge Bob Hodge i(A20967 works by) (a.k.a. Robert Ian Vere Hodge)
Born: Established: 1940 Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon What is the Human? : Australian Voices from the Humanities L. E. Semler (editor), Bob Hodge (editor), Philippa Kelly (editor), Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2012 Z1906296 2012 anthology criticism 'How do we define the human today? Have the tumultuous changes of the past half century created such new conditions and epistemologies that all older ideas and answers are obsolete? Are Humanities disciplines and the knowledge they contain now consigned to specialist interest in an irrelevant past?

This book brings together seventeen Australian voices giving illuminating pers-pectives on these fundamental questions. They speak from many disciplines in the Humanities and probe the cultural products of humanity, past and present, inscribed on bodies and texts, in oral, print and digital media.

Some explore the place of the human among the animals and machines with which we share so much. They reflect on problems of the corporate world and pre-modern cultures of Asia and Europe. They learn from popular cultural forms like computer simulations and Japanese manga and dolls. They look in new ways at a range of literary forms and at figurations of the human in drama, verse, novel and film. From this extraordinary array of art and ingenuity from the past and the present, they cast a stark light on the human, what it was, is, and may be.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 What Was Postcolonialism? Vijay C. Mishra , Bob Hodge , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literary History , vol. 36 no. 3 2005; (p. 375-402) A survey of the field of postcolonial criticism. The authors 'argue that a recognition of the pastness of postcolonialism...releases energies that have been locked into an ever more onerous task, to maintain and extend its scope, in a present and a future increasingly constituted in other terms'.
1 White Australia and the Aboriginal Invention of Space Bob Hodge , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Australian Space : Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry 1999; (p. 59-73) Hodge looks 'at two fundamental strategies for organising lived space: material (walls and buildings, organised by boundaries) and semiotic (signs and laws, organised around centres). The first is associated with Western architecture. The second is best exemplified by Australian Aboriginal traditions'.
1 Poetry and Politics in Oodgeroo: Transcending the Difference Bob Hodge , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 16 no. 4 1994; (p. 63-76)
1 1 Semiotics and History : Entering a No-Go Zone with Patrick Wolfe Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 51 no. 4 1992; (p. 877-883)
1 1 Reading the Dream Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 204-219)
1 Mulitculturalism and the Fragment Society Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 178-203)
1 The Australian Legend Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 162-177)
1 Reading the Country Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 143-161)
1 Crimes and Punishment Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 116-142)
1 Aboriginal Voices Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 91-115)
1 Dark Traditions Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 71-90)
1 Return of the Repressed Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 50-70)
1 The Bastard Complex Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 23-49)
1 Australian Literature and the Problem of History Bob Hodge , Vijay C. Mishra , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991; (p. 1-22)
1 26 y separately published work icon Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind Bob Hodge (editor), Vijay C. Mishra (editor), North Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1991 Z195061 1991 selected work criticism

'"Dark Side of the Dream" offers an assessment of Australian literature from a postcolonial perspective. Taking a post-bicentenary look at Australian culture and society through its literature, the authors argue that the shape of Australian society and literature has been profoundly affected by the processes that began when a colonizing society from Britain invaded Aboriginal Australia and dispossessed its people. "Australia" is not simply an autonomous White society; it also includes Aboriginal people and cultures and the problems of their relationship to the cultural practices of the colonizers. Nearly half of the book deals with Aboriginal texts, issues and themes, in recognition that this dimension of Australian literature is usually neglected. It also refers to recent work from Marxist, feminist and multicultural perspectives in order to analyze the "traditional" canon of Australian literature.' (Publication summary)
1 1 What is Post(-)Colonialism? Vijay C. Mishra , Bob Hodge , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Textual Practice , vol. 5 no. 3 1991; (p. 399-414) Australian Cultural Studies : A Reader 1993; (p. 30-46)
1 Review Bob Hodge , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , September vol. 35 no. 3 1990; (p. 91-93)
— Review of Writing from the Fringe : A Study of Modern Aboriginal Literature Mudrooroo , 1990 single work criticism
1 Advice to a Friend i "'My prick will never rule my life'", Bob Hodge , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Wordhord : A Critical Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry 1989; (p. 259)
1 Aboriginal Myths and Australian Culture Bob Hodge , 1986 single work
— Appears in: Southern Review , November vol. 19 no. 3 1986; (p. 277-290)
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