Politics of Writing
Articles
- Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
This article proposes a reading of Alexis Wright’s epic novel Carpentaria that focuses on the mine and its impacts as central to any understanding of…
29 October 2020 - Helen Garner’s Education
On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…
28 October 2021