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1 Christina Stead : An Internationalist and Cultural Mediator Anne Holden Rønning , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 22 2017; (p. 52-64)

'Christina Stead was one of the great Australian writers of the twentieth century. After a revived interest in her work in the 70s and 80s, Hazel Rowley’s Biography (1993) and Chris William’s Christina Stead: A Life of Letters (1989), as well as an issue of Southerly in 2003, Stead is in danger of being once again forgotten. Many of her texts, however, are relevant today as they express attitudes dominant in social media. It is perhaps fitting now in the twenty-first century that we evaluate how relevant her work still is in an age of transculturalism and globalization.

'We see in some of her texts the same dissatisfaction with politicians, politics and social life expressed in current political events such as Brexit and the Trump phenomenon.'

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1 Multiple Homes and Unhomely Belonging Anne Holden Rønning , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , no. 16 2016; (p. 50-60)

In a society where migration plays a significant role our identities become ambivalent to ourselves and only partly legible to others. This article will reflect on the role of the written word, political, social, and literary, as a narrative of multiple homes. Among the issues which determine the discourses and narratives of ‘multiple homes’ and ‘unhomely belonging’ are language and language politics (situational or real), beliefs about identities as solid and identifiable, constant border-crossings as central to many people’s lives, and the collision of social and cultural codes in the meanings and practices assigned to ‘the foreigner’.

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1 Searching for the Fantastic : An Australian Case Anne Holden Rønning , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 18 2016; (p. 53-66) 'Fantasy is the ability of the imagination to visualize and textualize non-existent worlds as real. It is an escape to an imaginary present or past, but often expresses direct criticism of the real world or moral issues. The relation between fantasy literature and myth, the fairytale, and legends is highly complex. Is fantasy and the fantastic just the strange and unknown, and what is its purpose? Is it only imaginary worlds that can be defined as such and what is the role of the reader/listener in interpreting these texts as fantasy? This article will discuss what we mean by fantasy literature in relation to a recent collection of novellas, Legends of Australian Fantasy, their use of myth and its literary expression.' (Publication abstract)
1 Louisa Lawson and the Woman Question Anne Holden Rønning , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 16 2015; (p. 74-86)

'The start of the women‘s press in Britain in 1855 by Emily Faithfull was an important step on the path to emancipation – women had now a voice in the media. Thirty-three years later Louisa Lawson, who has been called the first voice of Australian feminism, published the first number of The Dawn. This was a watershed in that it gave women a voice, marked women‘s political engagement in the public sphere, and employed women compositors, making available to a broader public issues which were politically relevant.

'In the first number Lawson asks, ―where is the printing-ink champion of mankind‘s better half? There has hitherto been no trumpet through which the concentrated voices of womankind could publish their grievances and their opinions.‖ This article will look at some of the content in the journal during the seventeen years of its existence, 1888- 1905. ' (Publication summary)
1 Pacific Studies : Quo Vadis? Anne Holden Rønning , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 13 2014; (p. 23-34)

'Looking back to the past this paper discusses why Pacific studies and in particular Australasian studies became an area of interest in tertiary education in Europe. What subject areas initiated these studies, and how do past legacies shape the present? With cutbacks in higher education over the past two decades the future of interdisciplinary studies and the humanities looks bleak. At the same time due to global business and increased political communication across borders there is a vibrant interest in and need for such studies among businesses and students. For most Europeans the literature of settler countries, with their European legacy, makes access to ways of thought and culture easier than studies of countries with other mythological backgrounds. In today’s multicultural environment such studies can provide knowledge for an understanding of other cultures and increase tolerance of the ‘other’. Area studies have relevance to our situation in Europe with increased migrancy, not least as a result of Schengen and EU regulations. ' (Author's abstract)
1 Bruce Bennett : An Appreciation Anne Holden Rønning , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 9 2012;
1 Literary Transculturations and Modernity : Some Reflections Anne Holden Rønning , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011; 'In an increasingly global world literary and cultural critics are constantly searching for ways in which to analyse and debate texts and artefacts. Postcolonial theories and studies have provided useful tools for analyzing, among others, New Literatures in English and other languages, as well as throwing new light on an understanding of older texts. But today, with the increase in diaspora studies in literature and cultural studies, new ways of looking at texts are paramount, given the complexity of contemporary literature. There is, as Bill Ashcroft writes, a 'strange contrapuntal relationship between identity, history, and nation that needs to be unravelled.' With references to Australian literature, this article will present some reflections on transculturation and modernities, the themes of the Nordic Network of Transcultural Literary Studies, which considers transculturation not as a theory but, 'a matrix through which a set of critical tools and vocabularies can be refined for the study of texts from a localized world, but institutionalised globally' and where , ' the engagement of multiple sites and their routes with the progression of "one modernity" in some way or other inform the aesthetics of transcultural literature.' (Author's introduction)
1 Halligan’s Love Affair with Food Anne Holden Rønning , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 5 2011; 'Marion Halligan's non-fiction Eat My Words, (1990), Cockles of the Heart (1996) and The Taste of Memory (2004) all have food as their main topic. Travelling round Europe on culinary journeys and staying in hotels and flats she provides us, as readers, with a wealth of recipes and reflections on the role food plays in people's lives, socially and culturally. This article will discuss some few of the points Halligan raises as she comments on the pleasure of food; on bricolage, both in the finished product and in cookery books; and the language we use to describe food and its processes. Adopting a bicultural approach Halligan compares Australian foods of today with those of her childhood, thus turning these food books into a kind of autobiography.' (Publisher's abstract)
1 Some Reflections on Myth, History and Memory As Determinants of Narrative Anne Holden Rønning , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 3 2009; (p. 143-151) 'Against a background of theoretical reflections on myth, history and memory this paper will discuss their use as narrative strategies in texts from Australia and New Zealand. Scholars differ as to the meaning of myth whether it is formed by "contradictory narratives, which become involved in one another like threads of a tapestry, too intertwined to summarize adequately, and endless" as Bidermann and Scharfstein suggest (1993, 9); "a system of communication" (Barthes 1972); or the expression of "man's understanding of himself in the world in which he lives." (Bultman 1993). I shall argue that in Malouf`s Remembering Babylon the myth of Aborigine life is central to an understanding of Gemmy, and memory gives a false almost mythical picture of life in the old country, a situation found in many postcolonial texts from settler countries. That myth is not "which raises some interesting questions about the use of myth.' Source: Anne Holden Rønning.
1 Cultural Encounters and Hyphenated People Anne Holden Rønning , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 1 no. 2009; (p. 90-96) 'Cultural encounters are a dominant feature of contemporary society. Identities are ever-changing ‘routes’ as Hall and others have stated, so we become insiders and outsiders to our own lives. The manifaceted expression of cultural belonging and its formation is illustrated by examples from Australasian writers who express not only the conflict of belonging to more than one culture, but also its inherent value. Such writers provide the reader with alternative ways of reading culture and illustrate the increasing trend to see ourselves as hyphenated people belonging nowhere specific in a globalised world.' Source: Anne Holden Rønning.
1 EASA : The European Association for Studies of Australia Anne Holden Rønning , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 1 no. 2009; (p. 9-11)
1 y separately published work icon Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Werner Senn vol. 1 Anne Holden Rønning (editor), Martin Leer (editor), 2009 Z1690378 2009 periodical issue
1 Literature as Reconciliation of Confusing Identities Anne Holden Rønning , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bernard Hickey, a Roving Cultural Ambassador : Essays in His Memory. 2009; (p. 149-159)
1 1 y separately published work icon Readings of the Particular : The Postcolonial in the Postnational Anne Holden Rønning (editor), Lene Johannessen (editor), Amsterdam New York (City) : Rodopi , 2007 Z1567987 2007 anthology criticism
1 More Lives than One Anne Holden Rønning , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 3 2003; (p. 110-119) The author examines papers from the manuscript collection of the Australian National Library in her discussion of Stead's portrayal of her women characters.
1 Myth, Language and Identity in The Seal Woman Anne Holden Rønning , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: NJES : Nordic Journal of English Studies , vol. 1 no. 2 2002; (p. 289-298)
1 y separately published work icon A Sense of Difference Women's Writing, A Sense of Difference Marit Berge (editor), Anne Holden Rønning (editor), Bergen : Senter for Humanistisk Kvinneforskning , 1995 Z1349676 1995 anthology criticism essay This anthology is a collection of eight critical articles presented at a conference held in the Department of English at the University of Bergen, Norway, in September 1991. The articles cover women's writing from Australasia, Africa and India. Introduction by editors. 
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