Danica Cerce Danica Cerce i(A90756 works by) (a.k.a. Danica Cace; Danica Čerče)
Born: Established: 1938
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Croatia,
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Ex Yugoslavia,
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Eastern Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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1 Jeanine Leane’s Counter-reading of Australian Historical and Cultural Memory Locally and Internationally Danica Cerce , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 58 no. 1 2022; (p. 65-79)

'Rooted in nationally defined conditions and primarily addressing its immediate audience of Indigenous and white Australians, Australian Indigenous literature performs an important role in the articulation of Indigenous peoples’ protest, constituting an indictment of white Australian colonial ideology, recuperation of neglected Aboriginal history, and a call for redefining blackness. However, despite its preoccupation with local and national, this literature is also a component of world literature in the sense that it raises ethical questions about societal, political and cultural violence and abuse that continue to haunt all societies in the 21st century. Focused on the poetry collection of Wiradjuri poet Jeanine Leane (2010) Dark Secrets: After Dreaming (AD) 1887–1961, this article demonstrates how Leane confronts assumptions about the irreducible division between empowered and disempowered cultures. It argues that, despite the plurality of cultural responses to colonial pressure, Leane’s verse deals with wider themes and provides spaces for cross-cultural relationality.' (Publication abstract)

1 On Contested History and the Contemporary Social Order in Australian Indigenous Poetry Danica Cerce , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: AAA : Arbeiten Aus Anglistik Und Amerikanistik , vol. 42 no. 1 2017; (p. 57-70)

'In the light of the recent emergence of the field of critical whiteness studies in Australia and its new perspective on issues that have occupied postcolonial literary studies over the last four decades, this article examines the impact of Australian indigenous literature on the white reader. In particular, it aims to show that, in its overt objection to institutional and historical processes which maintain the entitlement and disavowal of whiteness on the one hand, and the concomitant political, economic and cultural subordination of indigenous Australians on the other, the poetry of Romaine Moreton and Alf Taylor destabilises assumptions about the authority and entitlement of white colonisers. In this sense, the article provides additional evidence that works of art have the capacity to either reinforce structures of domination and suppression of "inferior races and cultures" or produce critical disruptions and generate alternative worlds (Levine 2000:383).' (Publication abstract)

1 Literature as Protest and Solace : The Verse of Alf Taylor Danica Cerce , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 16 2015; (p. 25-33)

'Although Australian indigenous poetry is often overtly polemical and politically committed, any reading which analyzes it as mere propaganda is too narrow to do it justice. By presenting the verse of Alf Taylor collected in Singer Songwriter (1992) and Winds (1994) and discussing it in the context of the wider social and cultural milieu of the author, my essay aims to show the thematic richness of indigenous poetic expression. Indigenous poets have, on the one hand, undertaken the responsibility to strive for social and political equality and foster within their communities the very important concept that indigenous peoples can survive only as a community and a nation (McGuiness). On the other hand, they have produced powerful self-revelatory accounts of their own mental and emotional interior, which urges us to see their careers in a perspective much wider than that of social chroniclers and rebels.' (Publication abstract)

1 European Translations of Australian Aboriginal Texts Danica Cerce , Oliver Haag , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature 2013; (p. 71-88)

'Though the number of translated works written by Australian Aboriginals reflects the increasing interest in their culture, the way these books are translated and marketed often distorts the author's original intentions and distorts how Australian Aboriginals are perceived by many European communities.' In this essay the authors focus on Sally Morgan's My Place and Doris Pilkington's Rabbit Proof Fence to illustrate how European translations have misrepresented the original text for the purpose of adapting translated text to their targeted audience's culture.

1 Shaping Images of Australia through Translation : Doris Pilkington and Sally Morgan in Slovene Translation Danica Cerce , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: ELOPE , Autumn vol. 10 no. 2 2013; (p. 139-147)
'By examining the Slovene translations of the novels My Place and Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by the Australian indigenous authors Sally Morgan and Doris Pilkington, this article seeks to highlight how they contribute to the bridging of the gap between the two cultures. In particular, and in accord with Gideon Toury’s 1995 proposal to analyse a translation in terms of its “‘adequacy’ in relation to the source text, and its ‘acceptability’ to the target audience,” it aims to establish whether the translators achieved a balance between domestication and foreignisation translation strategies, and how they transposed particular narrative styles and cultural signifiers of Aboriginal writing from the source to the target texts (Limon 2003, 640).' (Publication abstract)
1 Social Protest and Beyond in Australian Indigenous Poetry : Romaine Moreton, Alf Taylor and Michael J. Smith Danica Cerce , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 143-149)
1 The Portrayal of Otherness : John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat and Frank Hardy's The Great Australian Lover and Other Stories Danica Cerce , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Comparatist , May vol. 36 no. 2012; (p. 196-206)
'Critics such as Marian Galik have stressed the importance of drawing literary parallels between literatures either of the same or different epochs, and sometimes traditionally and spatially very distant from each other. According to Galik, such study is necessary and productive because it not only provides us with new knowledge and allows for "deeper understanding in various areas of literature, its history, theory, and criticism," but it also enables a more comprehensive insight into the study of related literary facts across cultural boundaries (Galik 99). In light of this view, my essay offers a comparative analysis of John Steinbeck's accounts of "paisanos"—as the American 1962 Nobel Prize winner refers to the mixed-blood inhabitants of California in the novel Tortilla Flat (1935)—and a collection of anecdotes about the Australian "battler," The Great Australian Lover and Other Stories (1967) by the Australian novelist and story-teller, Frank Hardy. By focusing on the similarities between the writers' characterization in these works, which differs significantly from the positive portrayals in their central novels in that both of them stress the protagonists' laziness, stupidity, parasitism and even promiscuity, I attempt to ascertain the grounds for reconciliation of these two different sides of Steinbeck and Hardy. In this sense, this discussion aims to provide additional evidence that reading literature comparatively leads to new insights and recognitions.
1 Generating Alternative Worlds : The Indigenous Protest Poetry of Romaine Moreton Danica Cerce , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: ELOPE , Spring vol. 7 no. 1 2010; (p. 49-59)
'Since the 1980s, indigenous authors have had a high profile in Australia and their writing has made a significant impact on the Australian public. Given that poetry has attracted more indigenous Australians than any other mode of creative expression, this genre, too, has provided an important impetus for their cultural and political expression. Discussing the verse of Romaine Moreton, and taking up George Levine’s view (2000) that works of art are able to produce critical disruptions and generate alternative worlds, the article aims to show that Moreton’s mesmerising reflections on origin, dispossession, dislocation and identity of Australian indigenous peoples encouraged national self-reflection and helped create a meaningful existence for the deprived and the dispossessed. It also touches upon some other topics explored in Moreton’s poetry and provides evidence of its universal relevance.' (Publication abstract)
1 'Making It Right' through the Poetry of Alf Taylor Danica Cerce , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Acta Neophilologica , vol. 42 no. 1-2 2009; (p. 83-91, 212)
1 'Was Ever a Book Written Under Greater Difficulty?' : On the Parallels between Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath Danica Cerce , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;
'At first glance, Frank Hardy seems to have had very little in common with John Steinbeck, yet a close examination of both writers' personal and literary life reveals a number of parallels. Just as Hardy denounced economic and social injustice and remained an artist with a refined sense for human rights and freedom, so did Steinbeck engage himself in the fight for egalitarian society. Although they are both best known for their proletarian narratives with social necessity and documentary integrity, they did not remain limited only within modes and methods of this literary tradition, but moved into a complex modern structure. The first part of my essay aims to shed light on the affinities between the two writers in terms of writing style, narrative technique, and subject matter; the second part focuses on the parallels between their central works, Power without Glory and The Grapes of Wrath.'
1 A Comparative Reading of John Steinbeck's and Frank Hardy's Works Danica Cerce , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Acta Neophilologica , vol. 39 no. 1-2 2006; (p. 63-70)
From author's abstract: 'My purpose in this essay is to briefly illuminate the most striking similarities between the two authors' [Steinbeck and Hardy's] narrative strategies in terms of their writing style, narrative technique, and subject matter, and link these textual affinities to the larger social and cultural milieu of each author' (63). The second part of the essay focuses particularly on The Grapes of Wrath and Power Without Glory.
1 Frank Hardy : Social Analyst or Man of Letters? Danica Cerce , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 70-74)
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