Aboriginal-White relations

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…

There is clearly a new upsurge of comment on and interest in Aboriginal Australian culture, an interest manifested by the reissue of a number of…

‘In this essay I aim to acknowledge the efficacy of the liberal humanist discourse in Remembering Babylon, whilst interrogating some of its more problematic…

Examines the political consequences inherent in the genre of the ‘well-made novel’. Argues that ‘a reading of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith may tell us…

‘In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Dark’s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as ‘a terribly beautiful piece of work’ (128). One of Dark’s earliest…

‘This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the ‘raw nerves’ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of ‘indifference’ that…

This article critiques the complex relationship with and presentation of, paternalism in Mary Ellen Jordan’s autobiographical work.

Focusing on Drewe's The Savage Crows (1976) and White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976), Stow compares the authors' approaches to history and the fictionalising of…

There are few moments in contemporary Australian history that I have found more uplifting than 16 August 1991. It was on that day that, in…

For those of us who knew Oodgeroo well and loved her dearly our attempts to contribute to this book are difficult as we are still…

Ruth Park’s novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Poor Man’s Orange (1949) portray a fictional Irish-Australian family living in the actual inner-city neighbourhood…