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1 Multicultural and Transnational Novels Robyn Morris , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Novel in English : The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 2017; (p. 300-312)

'The issue of multiculturalism in Australia has been marked by controversy, dividing both critics and the nation. This tension has been captured by and reflected in the reception of the strong but constantly evolving tradition of Australian multicultural writing...' (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Warrior Women : Fighting Breast Cancer Robyn Morris (editor), Wollongong : University of Wollongong Press , 2013 8933456 2013 anthology autobiography

A series of memoirs in which women report on their experiences of breast cancer.
1 Relations of Difference : Asianness, Indigeneity and Whiteness in Simone Lazaroo's Fiction Robyn Morris , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 32 no. 1-2 2010; (p. 116-129) Simone Lazaroo's fiction is important in discussions of Australian identity formation for its exploration of acculturated representations of both Asianness and Indigeneity. Her body of work brings to visibility issues of representation, especially the way race and gender are intertwined as artificial constructs of difference within Australian cultural and historical discourse. This article examines how Lazaroo's novels engage in a triangulated contemporary representational politics through the articulation of 'relations of difference' in which characters of Asian, Indigenous and Anglo ancestry interact and react to racialised and gendered inscriptions of otherness. This article explores how Lazaroo critiques the hyper-visuality and sexualising of the Asian female body by the dominant white Anglo Australian society and the concomitant erasure of the Indigenous body and culture in stories of nation in The World Waiting to be Made (1994), The Australian Fiancé (2000), and The Travel Writer (2006). These works signal Lazaroo's ongoing interrogation of the politics of both relations of difference and looking relations. [from Kunapipi 32,1-2, Abstracts, p. 245]
1 Food, Race and the Power of Recuperative Identity Politics within Asian Australian Women's Fiction Robyn Morris , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 32 no. 4 2008; (p. 499-508) 'This article considers the link between consumption, cuisine and agency in fiction by Asian Australian writers, Hsu-Ming Teo, Simone Lazaroo and Lillian Ng. It argues that the issue of whether these writers employ an oppositional poetics during the process of textualising or fictionalisng their experience and reactions to racialised and gendered practices can be addressed through an evaluation of their deployment of the food metaphor. In other words, do these writers challenge the assumption of a monolithic national identity in which Australian multiculturalism is equated with eating or tasting but disavowing the other?' (499)
1 'Growing up an Australian' : Renegotiating Mateship, Masculinity and 'Australianness' in Hsu-Ming Teo's Behind the Moon Robyn Morris , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Intercultural Studies , February vol. 27 no. 1-2 2006; (p. 151-166) This essay focuses on the way in which the films Gallipoli (1981) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) are deployed in the novel, Behind the Moon (2005). Morris suggests that such a reading points to the 'collision between discourses of masculinity, mateship, nationhood and race' thereby providing a 'timely intervention in the debate about national identity'.
1 y separately published work icon Australasian Canadian Studies Sonia Mycak (editor), Robyn Morris (editor), 2004 Sydney : Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand , 2004-2008 Z1287340 2004 periodical (6 issues) Australasian-Canadian Studies offers a comparative analysis of Canadian and Australian - New Zealand cultures from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
1 Reading Photographically : Translating Whiteness through the Eye of the Empire Robyn Morris , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 27 no. 2 2001; (p. 86-96)
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