Fiona Duthie Fiona Duthie i(A77857 works by) (a.k.a. Fiona Maree Duthie)
Gender: Female
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1 Crossing the Boundaries : The Versatility of Women in the Novels of Janette Turner Hospital Fiona Duthie , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 42 no. 1 2016; (p. 116-130)

'Over the last thirty years, Janette Turner Hospital has produced an oeuvre of work that is predominantly dark and unsettling. Many societies are presented as rigidly hierarchical and compartmentalized. Status and even identity are most often determined by the accidents of birth and circumstance. Perpetual conflict rages among the various factions and horrendous crimes are committed both globally and domestically against innocent individuals. However, as this article will demonstrate, though thoroughly acknowledging its might, these novels are not entirely resigned to the immutability of the status quo. Throughout her canon, Turner Hospital explores a sublet form of power that belongs principally to women. In the majority of works, at least one woman is able continuously and seamlessly to move from one class, creed or nation to another. Their peregrinations and metamorphoses reveal potentialities for cultural and political systems that seek to enforce division. From The Ivory Swing (1992) to The Claimant (2014), this article traces the means employed to such women to achieve the truth and justice they so earnestly desire set against the backdrop of the general bleakness.' (116)

1 Enemies of Honor : Heroes and Prisoners of War in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Tom Keneally’s Shame and the Captives Fiona Duthie , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 30 no. 1 2016; (p. 159-171)
'The heroism of the Australian soldier abroad is a subject often explored by Australian writers. Representations have fluctuated somewhat from the time of the First World War, but tales of valor and stoic endurance have elicited a potent fascination from this time. Among many examples is Frederic Manning's The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929), throughout which, despite the hardships and privations of the Western Front and the various enticements to accept commissions elsewhere, the protagonist prefers the lot of the everyday soldiers, among whom heroism is "a common thing" (94). The serving men are presented not as types but as individuals, but each is secure in the conviction that "one must not break" (13). The tradition continues in A. B. Facey's memoir of Gallipoli, A Fortunate Life (1981), in which "despite the fear men mostly took everything that was thrown at them" (260) and bonded together in "love and trust" (278), and more recently in Christopher Koch's Highways to a War (1995), which tells of a combat cameraman who joins the struggle against the Khmer Rouge. Mike Langford is athletic and charming, he is preoccupied with "the outcast and the vulnerable" (159), and he saves many lives ultimately at the cost of his own. He is portrayed indisputably as a "hem" (342). Clam Rhoden argues that Australian war literature "diverges from its international counterparts chiefly, but not solely, because most Australian accounts use a classical heroic tradition that others have abandoned for a disillusioned style of narration." Similarly, Robin Gerster notes that Australian writers are "critical of war but almost blindly impressed by warlike achievements" (257). However, there has long been a definitive thread of dissent interwoven into the heroic tradition, in which Martin Boyd's When Blackbirds Sing (1962) is one of the most notable examples. In Boyd's novel, Dominic Langton feels "a common humanity" with the German soldiers he is required to destroy (75). He sees "suicidal futility" where others perceive a glorious defense of civilization (114). Similarly, David Maloufs Fly Away Peter (1982) describes senseless carnage in another country's war. Like Langton, however, Jim Saddler sees the Germans as individuals, as "something more than the enemy" (80).' (Introduction)
1 Review : The Torch Fiona Duthie , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 371 2015; (p. 55)

— Review of The Torch Peter Twohig , 2015 single work novel
1 Life, Love and Art : Representations of the Artist in the Novels of Alex Miller Fiona Duthie , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Zeitschrift für Australienstudien , December no. 29 2015; (p. 48-61)
1 Spies in the Shadows : Intelligence and Secret Agents in the Novels of Christopher Koch Fiona Duthie , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 28 no. 2 2014; (p. 456-467)
'Duthie examines various characterizations of espionage in the novels of Christopher Koch. Throughout Koch's work, it is continually emphasized that the examination of espionage is the examination of doubleness. Koch thereby offers a layered approach largely unexamined by many British writers in this field and one that is fitting for an Australian author not displacing the writing of an ancestral country but crisscrossing and doubling the spy genres of Britain with alternate perspectives.' (Publication summary)
1 Silent Triumph of the Individual : Social Investigation through Empathy in Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars, Seven Types of Ambiguity, and The Street Sweeper Fiona Duthie , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 27 no. 2 2013; (p. 197-202)

'The novels of Elliot Perlman encompass a wide variety of social observations and criticism in both contemporary and historical settings. Each novel, Three Dollars, Types of Ambiguity, and The Street Sweeper, most definitely constitutes a recognition of suffering and a cry against inhumanity. However, the principal purpose of these novels is not to wallow in awfulness, nor is it solely to educate readers as to the harder realities of life. Here, Duthie examines Perlman's three novels. ' (Publication summary)

1 From Innocent to Evil: The Representation of the Child in the Works of Gail Jones Fiona Duthie , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 126-147)
1 A Celebration of the Typical Australian Woman Fiona Duthie , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 23 no. 1 & 2 2011;

— Review of Sarah Thornhill Kate Grenville , 2011 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Nineteenth Century in the Recent Australian Imaginary Fiona Duthie , 2007 Z1459511 2007 single work thesis

The nineteenth century has long been a source of fascination for Australian writers and historians as the origins of white settlement are continuously disentangled. As rapid changes in technology, economic restructuring and political innovations in the last thirty years have made the questions of values and future direction more urgent, re-evaluations of the past, focused by the Bicentennial of white settlement in 1988, have played a role in this quest. This thesis will discuss the ways in which certain aspects of the nineteenth century are represented in the recent Australian imaginary and what these representations imply about contemporary Australian culture.

It will become clear that in recent times, Australian historical disciplines have been enriched by a proliferation of voices and methods. However, most historical novelists and historians do not paint the voices unmediated - there is a system of ethics in most interpretative frameworks. This thesis will analyse fictional representations in terms of the ethical debates informing both modern literature and historiography. There will be three subject areas: "Depictions of Britain", "Convictism" and "Relations with Aborigines."

The first chapter will examine various representations of nineteenth-century Britain in recent Australian literature. This will include examinations of the relevant sections in Barbara Hanrahan's The Albatross Muff (1977), Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (1988), Michael Noonan's Magwitch (1982), Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997), David Malouf's The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996) and Bryce Courtenay's The Potato Factory (1995).

The prison settlements of colonial Australia have been an equally popular subject over the period under discussion. Therefore, the second chapter will examine Jessica Anderson's The Commandant (1975), Come Danger, Come Darkness (1978) by Ruth Park, Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom (1991), Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001) by Richard Flanagan, Christopher Koch's Out of Ireland (1999) and Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker (1987). As interjections to these accounts will be the historical arguments of Robert Hughes, Michael Roe, Stephen Nicholas, Ian Duffield and Lloyd L. Robson. In the third chapter, recent representations of social and personal relations between Aborigines and white settlers will be examined. The chapter will focus upon Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976), Liam Davison's The White Woman (1994), Grace Bartram's Darker Grows the Valley (1981), Jack Davis's Kullark (1984), Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom (1991), David Malouf's Remembering Babylon (1993) and Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972).

Representations of violent relations will also be examined. There are copious fictional accounts of settlers slaughtering Aboriginal people. Among others, the thesis will consider Mudrooroo's Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World (1983), Mark Svendsen's Poison Under Their Lips (2001), Carmel Bird's Cape Grimm (2004), Queen Trucanini by Nancy Cato and Vivienne Rae Ellis (1976), Jack Davis's Kullark (1984), Eric Willmot's Pemulwuy: The Rainbow Warrior (1987), Kate Grenville's The Secret River (2005), Robert Drewe's The Savage Crows (1976), Thea Astley's A Kindness Cup (1975) and Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung (1990). Parallel to these studies will be discussions of the historical works of Henry Reynolds, Geoffrey Blainey, Bain Attwood, Keith Windschuttle and Lyndall Ryan.

- author's abstract
1 y separately published work icon The Figure of Ned Kelly and Australian Identities : Selected Representations 1880-2001 Fiona Duthie , 2002 Z1063996 2002 single work thesis
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