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1 y separately published work icon Art and Migration : Revisioning the Borders of Community Bénédicte Miyamoto (editor), Marie Ruiz (editor), Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2021 28673733 2021 anthology criticism

'Art and migration: revisioning the borders of community is a collective response to current and historic constructs of migration as disruptive of national heritage. This interplay of academic essays and art professionals’ interviews investigates how the visual arts – especially by or about migrants – create points of encounter between individuals, places, and objects. Migration has increasingly taken centre stage in contemporary art, as artists claim migration as a paradigm of artistic creation. The myriad trajectories of transnational artworks and artists’ careers outlined in the volume are reflected in the density and dynamism of fairs and biennales, itinerant museum exhibitions and shifting art centres. It analyses the vested political interests of migration terminology such as the synonymous use of ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’ or the politically constructed use of ‘diaspora’. Political and cultural narratives frame globalisation as a recent shift that reverses centuries of cultural homogeneity. Art historians and migration scholars are engaged in revisioning these narratives, with terms and methodologies shared by both fields. Both disciplines are elaborating an histoire croisée of the circulation of art that denounces the structural power of constructed borders and cultural gatekeeping, and this volume reappraises the historic formation of national identities and aesthetics heritage as constructed under transnational visual influences. This resonates with migrant artists’ own demands for self-determination in a display space that too often favours canonicity over hybridity. Centring migration – often silenced by normative archives or by nationalist attribution practices – is part of the workload of revisioning art history and decolonising museums.'

Source: Abstract.

1 y separately published work icon Translations, an Autoethnography : Migration, Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter Paul Carter , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2021 24545928 2021 multi chapter work criticism

'Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker, UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of contemporary migration in an entirely new light. Migrant space-time, Carter argues, is not linear, but turbulent, vortical and opportunistic. Before-and-after narratives fail to capture the work of self-becoming and serve merely to perpetuate colonialist fantasies. The 'mirror state' relationship between England and Australia, its structurally symmetrical histories of land theft and internal colonisation, repress the appearance of new subjects and subject relations. Reflecting on collaborations with Aboriginal artists, Carter argues for a new definition of the stranger-host relationship predicated on recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty. Carter calls the creative practice that breaks the cycle of repeated invasion 'dirty art'. Translations is a passionately eloquent argument for reframing borders as crossing-places: framing less murderous exchange rates, symbolic literacy, creative courage and, above all, the emergence of a resilient migrant poetics will be essential.'  (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Worlding the South : Nineteenth-century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies Sarah Comyn (editor), Porscha Fermanis (editor), Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2021 24490284 2021 anthology criticism

'This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Drawing on hemispheric studies, Indigenous studies, and southern theory to decentre British and other European metropoles, the collection offers a latitudinal challenge to national paradigms and traditional literary periodisations and canons by proposing a new literary history of the region that is predicated less on metropolitan turning points and more on southern cultural perspectives in multiple regional centres from Cape Town to Dunedin. With a focus on southern orientations, southern audiences, and southern modes of addressivity, Worlding the south foregrounds marginal, minor, and neglected writers and texts across a hemispheric complex of southern oceans and terrains. Drawing on an ontological tradition that tests the dominance of networked theories of globalisation, the collection also asks how we can better understand the dialectical relationship between the ‘real’ world in which a literary text or art object exists and the symbolic or conceptual world it shows or creates. By examining the literary processes of ‘worlding’, it demonstrates how art objects make legible homogenising imperial and colonial narratives, inequalities of linguistic power, textual and material violence, and literary and cultural resistance. With contributions from leading scholars in nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies, the collection revises literary histories of the ‘British world’ by arguing for the distinctiveness of settler colonialism in the southern hemisphere, and by incorporating Indigenous, diasporic, settler, and other southern perspectives.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 1 y separately published work icon Beyond Ambiguity : Tracing Literary Sites of Activism John Kinsella , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2021 23070912 2021 single work criticism

'This volume completes John Kinsella’s trilogy of critical activist poetics, begun two decades ago. 

'It challenges familiar topoi and normatives of poetic activity as it pertains to environmental, humanitarian and textual activism in ‘the world-at-large’ – it shows how ambiguity can be a generative force when it works from a basis of non-ambiguity of purpose. The book shows how there is a clear unambiguous position to have regarding issues of justice, but that from that confirmed point ambiguity can be an intense and useful activist tool. 

'The book is an essential resource for those wishing to study Kinsella, and for those with an interest in twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, and it will stand as an inspiring proclamation of the author's faith in the transformative power of poetry and literary activity as a force for good in the world.'

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1 1 y separately published work icon Governing Natives : Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North Ben Silverstein , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2018 19752460 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia’s Northern Territory. This book examines archives and texts of colonial administration to study the emergence of ideas and practices of indirect rule in this unlikely colonial situation. It demonstrates that the practice of indirect rule was everywhere an effect of Indigenous or ‘native’ people’s insistence on maintaining and reinventing their political formations, their refusal to be completely dominated, and their frustration of colonial aspirations to total control. These conditions of difference and contradiction, of the struggles of people in contact, produced a colonial state that was created both by settlers and by the ‘natives’ they sought to govern.

'By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public power, and legitimacy, they rethought the scope of settler colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context. Australian settler governmentality, in other words, was not entirely exceptional; in the Northern Territory, as elsewhere, indirect rule emerged as part of an integrated, empire-wide repertoire of the arts of governing and colonising peoples.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 7 y separately published work icon Polysituatedness : A Poetics of Displacement John Kinsella , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2017 14530973 2017 selected work poetry criticism diary essay

'This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on 'praxis' book of poetic practice. The work extends John Kinsella's theory of 'international regionalism' and posits new ways of reading the relationship between place and individual, between individual and the natural environment, and how place occupies the person as much as the person occupies place. It provides alternative readings of writers through place and space, especially Australian writers, but also non-Australian. Further, close consideration is given to being of 'famine-migrant' Irish heritage and the complexities of 'returning'. A close-up examination of 'belonging' and exclusion is made on a day-to-day basis. The book offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by experiencing multiple places, developing a model of polyvalent belonging known as 'polysituatedness'. It works as a companion volume to Kinsella's earlier Manchester University Press critical work, Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape to Lyricism.'  (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon New Zealand's Empire : Pacific, History, Imperialism Katie Pickles (editor), Catharine Coleborne (editor), Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2015 24008657 2015 anthology criticism
1 4 y separately published work icon Moving Stories : An Intimate History of Four Women across Two Countries Alistair Thomson , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2011 Z1802258 2011 single work biography 'This book represents a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. As British migrants to Australia these women recorded in intimate detail aspects of everyday life and women's experience that are often lost to history: childcare and housework, housing and domestic appliances, friendship, family and married life. Taken together, their stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century women's history. More than that, this is an exploration of the creation and interpretation of the stories we make of our lives through letters, photographs, life writing and oral history. What shapes women's life stories? What do they reveal and conceal? What can we learn when these women look back over their lives and the dramatic transformations of self, family and society since the 1930s?' (Manchester University Press website)
1 3 y separately published work icon Disclosed Poetics : Beyond Landscape and Lyricism John Kinsella , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2007 Z1501800 2007 single work criticism John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with whom he feels some affinity.
1 3 y separately published work icon David Malouf Don Randall , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2007 Z1431932 2007 single work criticism A 'comprehensive study [that] situates David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but never loses sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts' (publisher's blurb).
2 y separately published work icon Critical Studies in Television Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2006-2015 24771309 2006 periodical (1 issues)
1 y separately published work icon Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa Annie E. Coombes (editor), Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2006 Z1877094 2006 selected work criticism essay

This work is a collection of essays, that collectively assert the notion of the British World perspective throughout several global colonies, the essays examine the acts of violence, destruction and dispossession, and the character of the relationship between the Indigenous peoples and the European settlers within their territories.

1 9 y separately published work icon Les Murray Steven Matthews , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2001 Z901807 2001 single work criticism Discusses all Murray's published collections and verse novels. Includes a chronology, notes and a bibliography.
1 1 y separately published work icon Lifting the Silence : A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction Robert Fraser , Manchester New York (City) : Manchester University Press , 2000 Z996979 2000 single work criticism
2 2 y separately published work icon Peter Carey Bruce Woodcock , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1996 Z947207 1996 single work criticism

'The volume explores Carey's position not only as a great entertainer but also as a disturbing postcolonial writer, setting his work in relation to his life and influences. Using previously neglected radio interviews among other documents, Woodcock sees Carey as a fictional shadow maker, whose characters often inhabit the unpredictable borderlands of experience. Commenting on the fabulist, surrealist and postmodernist elements, the author also stresses the political concerns of Carey's work... .' Targeting both students and general readers, the book provides 'detailed examinations of all Carey's major works as well as a survey of critical debates'.(Back cover 2nd ed.)

Contemporary World Writers Manchester University Press (publisher), 1996 1996 series - publisher criticism
1 y separately published work icon Sailing to Australia : Shipboard Diaries by Nineteenth-Century British Emigrants Andrew Hassam , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1994 Z1400925 1994 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Brawl Ridiculous:Swordfighting in Shakespeare's Plays Charles Edelman , New York (City) : Manchester University Press , 1992 Z842390 1992 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 1973 Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1973- 6370005 1973 periodical (1 issues)
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