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Bronwyn Davies Bronwyn Davies i(A17789 works by)
Born: Established: 1945 ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon New Lives in an Old Land : Re-turning to the Colonisation of New South Wales through Stories of My Parents and Their Ancestors Bronwyn Davies , Leiden : Brill , 2021 24737670 2021 multi chapter work criticism

'This book re-turns to the colonisation of New South Wales through the lives of the author’s ancestors. By looking hard and listening carefully, by being prepared not to look away, and at the same time, by delving with love into the specificity of those ancestral lives, this research entangles the author, and the reader, in the acts of colonisation that are taken for granted in their present day lives. Through letters, journals, photos, portraits, newspaper clippings and official records, the author re-turns to the spacetimemattering of colonial lives. She finds the means to re-think the scarifications of the present, of people and landscapes. Bringing concepts from Deleuze and Barad, among others, she re-thinks the way history might be done.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly Bronwyn Davies , Pixie O'Harris , Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2014 6165338 2014 single work children's fiction children's fable

'As far as the Fairy Queen was concerned, the Fairy-who-wouldn’t-fly was lazy and so she banished her to the Woodn’t, the place where she had sent all the other creatures who wouldn’t do as they should. There, the Fairy-who-wouldn’t-fly met many friends—the Kookaburra-who-wouldn’t laugh, the Bee-who-wouldn’t-live-in-a-hive, the Frog-who-wouldn’t-hop. Find out how they worked together to return to Fairyland, and how they convinced the Fairy Queen that they had good ideas of their own about how to live their lives.

'The magic tale of The Fairy Who Wouldn’t Fly, adapted by Bronwyn Davies for today’s children, was originally written and illustrated by Pixie O’Harris in 1945.' (Publisher's website.)
1 1 y separately published work icon My Book of Jokes Scholastic Australia , Bronwyn Davies (illustrator), Gosford : Scholastic Press , 2012 6625634 2012 single work children's fiction humour
1 y separately published work icon Judith Butler in Conversation : Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life Bronwyn Davies (editor), New York (City) : Routledge , 2008 Z1613889 2008 anthology criticism
1 1 The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly : A Story of Subjection and Agency Bronwyn Davies , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy , August vol. 5 no. 2 2005; (p. 151-174) 'This article examines the discursive shifts in the story The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly, written and illustrated by Pixie O'Harris in 1945 and then retold by David Harris in 1974. The article examines the changes between the 1940s and the 1970s in the broader social world, in particular the ways the correction of children (or bringing children into the social) is understood. The concepts of subjection, governmentality and agency are used to inform this analysis. The aspect of becoming literate that involves learning how to comprehend oral stories and how to decode graphic signs is analysed as integral to children's subjection in specific historical moments. The analysis provides an example of how teachers might analyse the texts they work with in order to make visible the forms of governmentality they are caught up in when teaching literacy.'
1 'The Second Bridegroom' : A Narrative of Captivity in Australian Landscapes Bronwyn Davies , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: (In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations 2000; (p. 215-231)
1 Reading and Writing 'The Kadaitcha Sung' : A Novel by Sam Watson Bronwyn Davies , Sam Watson , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: (In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations 2000; (p. 189-214)
1 (Be)longing in the Writing of Janette Turner Hospital : Eclipsing the Constitutive Force of Discourse Bronwyn Davies , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: (In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations 2000; (p. 233-247)
1 y separately published work icon (In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations Bronwyn Davies , Walnut Creek : Altamira Press , 2000 Z1626870 2000 multi chapter work criticism
1 Eclipsing the Constitutive Power of Discourse: The Writing of Janette Turner Hospital Bronwyn Davies , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Working the Ruins : Feminist Poststructural Theory and Methods in Education 2000; (p. 179-198)
1 The Cutting Edge of Literary Criticism Bronwyn Davies , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 25 no. 2 1998; (p. 63-67)
— Review of Jamming the Machinery : Contemporary Australian Women's Writing Alison Bartlett , 1998 selected work criticism
1 Belly of the Beast Bronwyn Davies , 1986 single work short story
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 12 no. 1-2 1986; (p. 76-81)
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