The Unbending is set about the time of the arrival of Waten's own family in Australia, prior to the First World War. He thus returns first in his writing to the scene of the family drama, ... There is no part of the family's intimate life that can be kept apart from the history of migration they are living. The family soon becomes entangled with the politics of the time and place - the bitter struggles over conscription which split the Labor Party and the nation in 1916-17. ... the narrative goes on to tie together the 'red raggers and foreigners', both of whom provide alternatives to the official version of patriotism. (David Carter, 'Introduction', Judah Waten : Fiction, Memoir, Criticism (1998): xxv-xxvi)).
A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career
Toowoomba
:
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
,
1997
Z159609
1997
single work
criticism
