Colonialism & imperialism
Articles
- Walter Murdoch : ‘A Humble Protest’?
WALTER Murdoch, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia for thirty years and once Australia's best known essayist, has been typecast as a…
1 October 1993 - English Heritage and Australian Culture: The Church and Literature of England in Oscar and Lucinda
My argument is in three parts: first, about how Oscar and Lucinda seems to be signalling the need for a move away from the Church…
1 October 1995 - Getting a Head: Dismembering and Remembering in Robert Drewe’s The Savage Crows
The article examines the use of bodily metaphors of dismemberment and beheading in Drewe’s novel about the fate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, The Savage…
1 May 2003 - Becoming Native: Australian Novelists and the New Zealand Wars
In focussing on four Australian novels on the New Zealand (or Maori) Wars, Wevers discusses these questions: ‘Why were Australian writers drawn to the New…
1 May 2006 - Un-Australian Activities?: Mary Gilmore’s Versions from the Spanish
Somewhere around 1915-18, Mary Gilmore worked on assembling a collection of poems translated from, or based on, Spanish originals. The Mitchell Library hold two typescript…
1 October 1997 - Mid-Victorian Reading and the Antipodes
Focusing on a process of reading ‘conscripted’ by Victorian sensation fiction, the article begins ‘by outlining the European tradition of the Antipodes before discussing the…
1 May 2006 - James McAuley’s New Guinea : Colonialism, Modernity and Suburbia
If, as Roger Silverstone argues, 'Suburbia has remained curiously invisible in the accounts of modernity' (4), then it is also true that colonialism has remained…
1 November 1998 - Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism: Introduction
Ada Cambridge's description of 'The Chase', the imposing Norfolk seat of the Desailly family, in her 1897 novella 'At Midnight', captures in a single architectural…
1 October 2011 - Ecopastoralism: Settler Colonial Pastoral Imaginary in the US West and Australian Outback
As Lawrence Buell has observed, the pastoral, which in the ‘old’ worlds of Europe was a type of symbolic allegory not expected to be taken…
30 June 2015 - Colonialism, Racial Violence and Loss: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and The Roving Party
Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972) and Rohan Wilson’s The Roving Party (2011) resonate with the violence of the colonising process. The books…
30 May 2015 - The Communion of Clouds: Becoming-Woman in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
In her well-read work on contemporary feminist theory titled Nomadic Subjects (2011), Rosi Braidotti gets to grips with the Deleuzian notion of ‘becoming-woman’. Noting that…
25 February 2018 - The Ends of Empire: Australian Steampunk and the Reimagining of Euro-Modernity
The rise of steampunk – speculative-fiction works set in a Victorian or pseudo-Victorian world marked by steam-powered technology – has led to a range of…
3 December 2018
Contributors
- Ruth Brown
- Maureen Clark
- Leigh Dale
- Robert Dixon
- Louise D'Arcens
- Ian Henderson
- Grant Hamilton
- Geoffrey Hondroudakis
- Andrew Lynch
- Tom Lynch
- Susan K. Martin
- Catriona Mills
- Jennifer Strauss
- Stephanie Trigg
- Lydia Wevers