Memory
Articles
- The World Outside Time : Slessor’s Five Bells
'Five Bells' is admired for its imagery, emotional intensity, and the technical proficiency of its verse. The ideas expressed in it embarrass some critics and…
1 October 1971 - Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction: The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly
Focusing on Carey’s and Drewe’s representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues…
1 May 2002 - Review of Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics, by Tanya Dalziell
Grouping sets of novels and stories to elucidate the functions of key tropes in Jones’s fiction, Dalziell covers the writer’s entire output up to 2020…
30 April 2021 - Displaced Homelands in Gerald Murnane’s Inland
Gerald Murnane is the pre-eminent chronicler of Irish-Australian Catholic male youth: its spiritual curiosity, onanistic fantasies and inevitable guilt, and the irresistible attraction to the…
30 September 2021 - Bibliographic Notes on Selected Irish-Australian Writers
This essay surveys the viewpoints of selected Irish-Australian writers: the anthologists Bill Wannan, Vincent Woods and Colleen Burke then Bernard O’Dowd, Brian Elliott, Tom Inglis…
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