Whiteness
Articles
- Biopolitics and Eleanor Dark’s Prelude to Christopher
‘In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Dark’s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as ‘a terribly beautiful piece of work’ (128). One of Dark’s earliest…
1 June 2011 - White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
‘This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the ‘raw nerves’ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of ‘indifference’ that…
1 June 2011 - Review of White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation by Liliana Zavaglia
From at least the early 1990s, when the Hawke Labor Government introduced reconciliation legislation into the Australian parliament the concept of reconciliation has attracted criticism…
28 April 2020 - Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal Writing
This article considers some of the reasons why Irish-Australian literature has not been a significant trajectory within Australian literary studies and what it might offer…
30 September 2021