Memoirs

I joined the University of Delhi as a student in 1974, having quit a course in Engineering, hoping to hone my writing skills in an…

We are beginning to reach a stage when the books which form the basis of our social history are emerging from obscurity and are becoming…

Discusses the representation of feminist activism in some contemporary women’s autobiographies, focussing on Susan Ryan’s Catching the Waves (1999), Wendy McCarthy’s Don’t Fence Me In…

‘Humanitarianism is sexy, or so they say. Unlike other forms of civic aid that go by less glamorous names, such as social work, the word…

In his last essay, 'De Gustibus', Martin Boyd reiterates his belief that what gives greatness to a poem or a novel is 'its wisdom, its…

Drusilla Modjeska's latest book, Timepieces, is a collection of essays that covers a broad span of subjects, including memory, writing, place, family, friends, and…

Australian Literary Studies, launched by A.D. Hope in Hobart in August 1963, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2013. This is an unusual span for…

IT would have been in 1921 and in the Elizabeth Street 'Mockbell's', of course, that Ross Gollan indicated to me a dapper young man leaving…

"we might read Forbidden Love in terms of a set of conditions that have allowed stories of abuse, trauma and exploitation to drive the memoir…

While much of the scholarship on Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts has analysed it through the framework of auto-theory, I argue that considering it through the…

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…

Joint Winner of the inaugural ALS PhD Essay Prize.

In a 2019 article in The Guardian, Gomeroi poet, essayist and legal scholar Alison Whittaker…