Life-Writing
Articles
- Writing the Irish-Australian Self: Life-Writers and Irish Stereotypes, 1870-2000
This article surveys the history of Irish-Australian autobiography and memoir as a form of writing particularly well adapted to exploring the tensions and compromises of…
30 September 2021 - Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
The Central Highlands of Tasmania is an unlikely antipodes of Irish writing, but it is a region that has complex representations by exiled and immigrant…
30 September 2021 - Vincent Buckley, Colonialism and the Problem of Irish-Australian Identity
Perhaps no Australian writer or thinker has probed the condition of Irishness in Australia more extensively than the poet-critic Vincent Buckley (1925-88). His first memoir…
30 September 2021 - Aboriginal Women's Life-History Writing, Settler Reading and Not Just Black and White
Joint Winner of the inaugural ALS PhD Essay Prize.
In a 2019 article in The Guardian, Gomeroi poet, essayist and legal scholar Alison Whittaker…
11 December 2022