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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... vol. 20 no. 3 May 2002 of Australian Literary Studies est. 1963 Australian Literary Studies
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction : The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly, Graham Huggan , single work criticism
Focusing on Carey's and Drewe's representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues that the two novels 'illustrate the importance of the literary text in structuring the individual/collective memory process', drawing attention to the ways in which memory is dependent on metaphor, particularly metaphors of the body, to actualise remembered experience. Both works 'are postcolonial renderings, not just of one of Australia's most powerful national narratives, but also one of its most enduring and yet paradoxiacally amnesiac cultural myths. In remembering Ned Kelly, both writers draw attention to alternative histories inscribed upon the wild colonial body, through which tha nation's chequered past can be creatively transformed and its present critically reassessed.' The article concludes with reflections on the malleability and current fashionability of the Kelly legend, assessing its implications for 'a Wester ex-settler society whose own thriving memory industry bears so many of the contradictory signs of the nation's colonial past'.
(p. 142-154)
Cold War, Home Front : Australian Women Writers and Artists in the 1950s, Susan Sheridan , single work criticism
In paying tribute to Dorothy Green, Sheridan recalls the generation of women writers and artists who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s, their social visions and their contributions to progressive cultural politics and artistic achievements during the Cold War years.
(p. 155-166)
Criminal Transport : George Barrington and the Colonial Cure, Toby R. Benis , single work criticism

Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is a significant response to the popular anxiety that convicts are carriers of social contamination and physical disease, at a time when the implicit association was made between criminals and colonial subjects, who needed to be physically segregated from Britain in order to maintain the stability of the domestic order.

(p. 167-177)
The Tidiest Revolution : Regulative Feminist Autobiography and the De-Facement of the Australian Women's Movement, Margaret Henderson , single work criticism
Discusses the representation of feminist activism in some contemporary women's autobiographies, focussing on Susan Ryan's Catching the Waves (1999), Wendy McCarthy's Don't Fence Me In (2000), and Anne Summer's Ducks on the Pond (1999). The article concludes with a ficto-critical piece of experimental autobiography, a 'brief, episodic, fragmentary autograph of soundtracks and wordtracks'.
(p. 178-191)
"One of Them Kinds of Kids" : The Lives of Les Murray, Martin Duwell , single work criticism (p. 192-200)
About Face : Asian-Australians at Home, Lyn Jacobs , single work criticism
An overview of recent poetry and prose of Asian-Australian writers as they perform an artistic 'about-face' to reflect on racialised depictions of minority ethnicities.
(p. 201-214)
The British Tradition in John Morrison's Radical Nationalism, John McLaren , single work criticism
Uses John Morrison's work as an exemplary case for examining the British dissenting tradition in shaping Australian radicalism. Argues that the strength of the reception of Morrison's writing in Australia as contributing to the tradition of radical nationalism in which he wrote shows that this tradition, like the Labor movement to which it was allied, owed much to British working-class Protestantism and its sense of duty, solidarity and egalitarianism.
(p. 215-224)
Henry Kendall's Religion, Ken L. Goodwin , single work criticism
Goodwin's investigation of Kendall's religious persuations takes as a starting point a suggestion by Douglas Sladen (in A Century of Australian Song,1888) that Kendall was something of an outsider in social and literary circles in so far as he was a Roman Catholic 'in a secular, or at best an undenominational community'. The article examines the available evidence on Kendall's religion and the question whether being a Catholic at the time was really something of a social liability, and discusses contemporary social attitudes towards religious groups, particularly Catholicism. The author concludes that Sladen was wrong in considering Kendall to be a Catholic, and that, on the whole, Sydney society at the time was not intolerant of Catholics but was rather a society increasingly tolerant of all religious differences, including secularism and irreligion.
(p. 225-230)
The Artful Man : Theory and Authority in Brian Castro's Fiction, Karen Barker , single work criticism
The article discusses the critical reception of the work of Brian Castro, especially the responses to his use of critical theory in his novels. In analysing theory and authority in Castro's novel Double-Wolf, Barker discovers a shift in his approach to theory and argues that it is Double-Wolf which, unlike the earlier novels, gives Freud and Freudian theory a leading role and foregrounds theory in an entirely different way from his other novels. She discusses these and other issues with Brian Castro in an interview published in the same issue of Australian Literary Studies.
(p. 231-240)
Theory as Fireworks : An Interview with Brian Castro, Karen Barker (interviewer), single work interview (p. 241-248)
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature : 2001, Irmtraud Petersson , Carol Hetherington , single work bibliography (p. 249-270)
Untitled, Nicole Moore , single work review
— Review of Authority and Influence : Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 2001 anthology criticism extract ;
(p. 271-273)
Untitled, Veronica Brady , single work review
— Review of Rewriting God : Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction Elaine Lindsay , 2000 selected work criticism ; Feminist Poetics of the Sacred : Creative Suspicions 2001 anthology criticism ;
(p. 274-276)
[Review] The Gauche Intruder : Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy, Margaret Henderson , single work review
— Review of The Gauche Intruder : Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy Jennifer Rutherford , 2000 single work criticism ;
(p. 276-278)
Untitled, Michael Ackland , single work review
— Review of Henry Handel Richardson : The Letters Henry Handel Richardson , 2000 selected work biography correspondence ;
(p. 278-281)
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