Identity
Articles
- Gentlefolk Errant: The Family Writings of Martin Boyd
Discusses the importance of family in Boyd’s life and work, arguing that for Boyd family is more important than place or nationality: ‘it is family…
1 October 1972 - Janette Turner Hospital’s Radical Re-Writing: Oedipal Charades
Janette Turner Hospital is a writer who travels: geographically, spiritually, emotionally, generically. She takes risks, crosses borders, makes radical departures (her third novel is entitled…
1 October 1996 - Ladies and Gentlemen? Language, Body and Identity in The Aunt’s Story and The Twyborn Affair
In The Aunt's Story (1948) and The Twyborn Affair (1979), generally considered White's first and last great novel respectively, the themes of gendered settler identity…
1 October 2013 - O’Grady, John see ‘Culotta, Nino’: Popular Authorship, Duplicity and Celebrity
Considers the 'textual and institutional gestures' set in train by John O'Grady's Nino Culotta hoax. 'The point of this essay is neither to condemn the…
1 October 2004 - The Reflexive Carter Brown, or the Prescience of Last Note for a Lovely
Despite Carter Brown’s status as the least known of Australia’s most successful authors, research has been done on his productions, his style, and his bibliography…
28 October 2021