Editor's Note single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Editor's Note
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'The alienation, oppression and isolation that Gerard Lee records about the writing life in Queensland is not a lonely account. Ambivalence about their home towns, the politics, a stunted culture and devastated townscapes - mixed with the thrill of the exotic and the perverse - has been a rich soil for Thea Astley, David Malouf, Janette Turner Hospital and Rodney Hall. Younger writers such as Andrew McGahan, Mary-Rose MacColl and Venero Armanno also seem to be haunted by a memory of brutal politics and of many lost Brisbanes - mourned as one might the passing of childhood.' (Author's introduction, 69)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing Robyn Sheahan-Bright (editor), Stuart Glover (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2002 Z985122 2002 anthology poetry short story essay autobiography extract Contains over forty excerpts from Queensland literature in the period 1901-2001 together with eleven new essays by contemporary Queensland writers. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2002 pg. 69-70
Last amended 27 Mar 2012 12:38:29
69-70 Editor's Notesmall AustLit logo
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X