Susanne Gannon Susanne Gannon i(A78665 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Schmerz : An Exhibition i "Only in Berlin does it seem right to step from", Susanne Gannon , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 2 no. 2 2012; (p. 25-26)
1 A Little History of Mechanics' Institutes i "Good Professor Birkbeck", Susanne Gannon , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Disappearing 2012;
1 "Old-Fashioned and Forward-Looking" : Neo-Liberalism and Nostalgia in the Daring Books for Girls Susanne Gannon , Marnina Gonick , Jo Lampert , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Jeunesse : Young People, Texts, Culture , Summer vol. 4 no. 1 2012; (p. 85-106)

'An apparent resurgence in gender-specific marketing of products for children has been linked to post-millennial anxieties about the destabilizing of categories such as gender and nationality. Although links can be traced to past patterns of gender segregation in print culture for children, in this paper we are interested in tracking incongruities in texts in the present context. In this paper we analyze critically the franchise anchored around Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz's The Daring Book for Girls, which was a publishing sensation in the USA and which led to an Australian edition as well as several follow-up texts. The inspiration for these books came from The Dangerous Book for Boys, originally published in the UK in 2006 by brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden, one of whom had been a teacher, and the Daring books for girls were a direct response to the success of the book for boys. Buchanan and Peskowitz, two American authors of mothering books, approached Iggulden and Iggulden seeking permission to use their design and concept to write a version for girls.'  (Introduction)

1 Into the (Textual) West Susanne Gannon , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 44 no. 3 2009; (p. 29-37)
"A critical/creative paradigm in contemporary English carries with it an imperative that students should be given opportunities for deep engagement with texts relevant to what matters in their everyday lives."
1 Doing 'the Other' Over : Narrative Conservatism in Radical Popular Culture Susanne Gannon , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 3 no. 1 2009; (p. 29-45)

'Tom Zubrycki's documentary film Molly and Mobarak (2003) and John Doyle's television mini-series Marking Time (2003) were both released during the most vehement anti-refugee governmental regime of contemporary Australian history. Whilst the Howard government and the Ruddock and Vanstone ministries were intent on dehumanizing refugees, these film-makers - amongst other Australian artists - were intent on humanizing them. Afghani refugees were portrayed in these films attempting to create viable lives in rural Australia, as thousands of Afghani asylum seekers were detained by government policy in remote and offshore detention centres. This article considers Zubrycki's and Doyle's portrayals of Afghani refugees as political and aesthetic interventions into official discourses distancing the interests of 'Australians' from those of the refugee 'others' (Gannon and Saltmarsh 2006, 2007). At the same time as applauding these interventions, this article also attempts to map their limits by asking in particular whether the conventions of film narrative inevitably contain and tame. Does narrative carry with it, in these instances at least, a conservatism where empathy becomes most possible when the other is made over to become like 'us'?' (Publisher's abstract)

1 Coming to Writing Susanne Gannon , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 43 no. 1 2008; (p. 33-43)
This paper reports on one strand of a research project conducted with prominenet writers who are also English teachers from around Australia. It asks what are the conditions that led these writers to come to establish and promote an enabling pedagogy for writing in their classes. It incorporates a consideration of questions of aesthetics and ethics in writing and English and concludes with some suggestions of writing pedagogies and understadings emerging from this research that might be taken up and incorporated into English classes in schools.
1 Sustaining Language/Existing Threats : Resistance and Rhetoric in Australian Refugee Discourses: A Response to Linnell Secomb Susanne Gannon , Sue Saltmarsh , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Judith Butler in Conversation : Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life 2008; (p. 163-186)
1 La Rubia Susanne Gannon , 2007 single work short story
— Appears in: LiNQ , November-December no. 34 2007; (p. 101-106)
1 I Remember i "I remember", Susanne Gannon , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 30 no. 1 2003; (p. 46-47)
1 Betwixt i "Betwixt", Susanne Gannon , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 30 no. 1 2003; (p. 45-46)
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