C. Hartley Grattan and his Australia and Southwest Pacific Collection arrived at the University of Texas in Austin in 1964. I arrived there at the…
The Empire Writes Back is a catchy proposition, a pop-cult title sitting on top of a much heavier subtitle: theory and practice in post-colonial literatures…
Laurie Clancy believes that Xavier Herbert wrote a good book, Capricornia, nearly fifty years ago. After forty years of silence, conventional short stories, bizarre…
Healy examines a spate of novels in the 1890s that were inspired by the association of Australia with the mythical lost continent of Lemuria. Novels…
Dorothy Green is quite right when she notes that Grant Watson's psychological and metaphysical disturbance looks forward to the novels of Patrick White, although the…
The novels which we will look at belong almost to different universes of discourse. Rowcroft's Tales of the Colonies (1843) deals with the aborigine in…
However silently or intermittently James Tucker may have hoped for redemption he had given himself to death in 1845 when he placed the final touches…