Jane Hanley Jane Hanley i(A66825 works by)
Born: Established: 1981 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ;
Gender: Female
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1 International Solidarity, Volunteer Tourism and Travel Writing : Mexico and Central America in Spanish and English Jane Hanley , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 56 2019; 'This article discusses the intersection of ethnographic, reflexive and anecdotal styles in travel writing produced out of contemporary international volunteer tourism, and analyses the impact of volunteer tourism on the production of a narrating subject and on the representation of host communities. The comparison of a primary work in Spanish (Herminia Esteban’s 2004 Un viaje solidario) with one in English (Cate Kennedy’s 2005 Sing, and Don’t Cry) allows us to better understand the specific historical, cultural and linguistic dimensions of different routes and encounters, as well as travel writing’s potential – and its limitations – in expressing a broader critique of global inequality. The texts are analysed to foreground the quotidian aspects of mobility and degree of authorial transparency regarding the terms under which volunteer activities take place. Extending from this analysis of the authors’ reflexivity, awareness and expression of critical engagement, the article explores the nature of representation in the narration of encounters between privilege and poverty, and frames these in relation to the ethical dimensions of contemporary practices of solidarity-based volunteer travel.' (Publication abstract)
1 Nina Murdoch Alone in Spain : Tremendous Past, Savage Present Jane Hanley , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Travel Writing , vol. 21 no. 4 2017; (p. 383-402)

'Madoline “Nina” Murdoch (1890–1976) was an Australian journalist, broadcaster, and writer. Among her other works, Murdoch wrote several travel books about her trips to Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Travel to Europe from Australia was becoming increasingly accessible in the early twentieth century, and Murdoch’s books contributed to a popular discourse about Australia’s relationship both to Britain and to European civilisation more generally, as well as reflecting anxieties about women’s role in society and about industrialisation. This essay discusses the travel writing of Nina Murdoch in the context of the nature and meaning of travel to Europe – Spain in particular – for Australians in the early twentieth century, analysing how Mucrdoch’s equivocal Eurocentrism and her feminine authorial voice are inflected by changing discourses of modernity and of women’s lives.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Tourist Gaze in the Spanish Civil War : Agnes Hodgson Between Surgery and Spectacle Jane Hanley , 2016 single work biography
— Appears in: College Literature , Winter vol. 43 no. 1 2016; (p. 196-219) 'International volunteers in the Spanish Civil War negotiated fraught aspects of modernity, including links between technology and violence, the ethics of transnational engagement, and the interconnection between national identity and changing roles for women. To understand their experiences they drew on existing knowledge of Spain and a range of interpretive frameworks available to understand their life in war. Agnes Hodgson was an Australian nurse who volunteered for the Republicans. Her experiences, recorded in her diary, reflect neither the politically committed volunteer’s disillusionment nor the romance of war as confirmation of masculinity present in other narratives. Hodgson uses a tourist gaze to frame parts of her journey, a strategy also employed by Australians in earlier conflicts. Tourism in war reveals aspects of wartime leisure while providing an alternative model for reconciling traumatic experiences. The fusion of the genre of war testimony, which fundamentally relates change, with the genre of travel narrative, which traditionally projects stasis, disrupts the prevailing tropes of both genres.' (Publication abstract)
1 Nettie Palmer's South to South : Australia, Chile and Writing the Nation Jane Hanley , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 9 no. 1 2016;

'This article explores Australian writer and critic Nettie Palmer’s presentation of the figure of Gabriela Mistral and vision of Latin American literature more generally. It compares changing experiences of women writers in the early twentieth century in Australia and in South America and connects these changes to their role in defining and developing concepts of national literature. Salter’s proposal for finding both national and international literatures via the echoes and resemblances between texts and authors is used as a starting point for identifying fruitful points of comparison in the specific case of Palmer and Mistral as well as the limits of the Australia - Chile association. The complex role of gender and race in the construction of postcolonial aesthetics is linked to differences and similarities in the colonial histories of the two nations and the instability of women’s identification with the evolving national discourse of the time.'

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1 Salt i "he wakes and dreamwalks in search of liquid", Jane Hanley , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: In a Cool Blue Light 2002; (p. 158)
1 Ex Machina i "Seduction", Jane Hanley , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 27 1998; (p. 102-104)
1 Man at Night i "City of wet", Jane Hanley , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 27 1998; (p. 94)
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