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1 Introduction : Journeying and Journalling Giselle Bastin , Kate Douglas , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. vii-xi) '...these chapters provide a snapshot of current directions and preoccupations in contemporary travel writing scholarship. They function as a reminder of the work that has been done, for instance, on representations of Indigeneity and of writing marginalised narratives into the travel canon. However, these chapters also remind us of the important work that remains, particularly in relation to travel writing as a form of reconciliation - for example, between Indigenous people and colonisers, and between colonisers and neo colonials. Scholars also bear the responsibility of considering the complexities of representing culture and place in a post-colonial, even post-traumatic world. The legacies of history and scholarship, and the weight of contemporary politics bot enable and disable travel writing. However, what remains is a sense of the importance of this work, as a means of redressing the past and for writing new histories.' (xi)
1 1 y separately published work icon Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing Giselle Bastin (editor), Kate Douglas (editor), Michele McCrea (editor), Michael X. Savvas (editor), Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2010 Z1824382 2010 anthology prose poetry 'In December 2004 the town of Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, provided the backdrop for an international conference titled 'Journeying and Journalling'. The conference created a space for creative and critical meditations on travel writing.

Collectively the essays in this collection provide a snapshot of current directions and preoccupations in contemporary travel writing scholarship. They function as a reminder of the work that has been done on representations of Indigeneity and of writing marginalised narratives into the travel canon. However, these chapters also remind us of the important work that remains - particularly in relation to travel writing as form of reconciliation - for example, between Indigenous people and colonisers, and between colonisers and neo-colonials.

Scholars also bear the responsibility of considering the complexities of representing culture and place in a post-colonial, even post-traumatic world.

This collection includes essays by Tim Youngs, Helen Tiffin, and Paul Sharrad, and many other leading writers in the field of travel writing.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 The 1970s Gossip Girls : Gossip's Role in the Surveillance and Construction of Female Social Networks in Helen Garner's Monkey Grip Giselle Bastin , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 115-120) 'Gossip in Melbourne author Helen Garner's writing can be viewed as that which is used in attempts to seal friendships, close the spaces and erase the differences that divide 'the self from the space of the other' (Nead 6). This discussion will consider how language constructs gendered living and speaking spaces and how Garner's concentration on forms of daily domestic exchange celebrates that which Whitlock refers to as 'exalted gossip over, among other things, self-centered masculine discourse.' (p. 115)
1 Corrosive Passion Giselle Bastin , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , November no. 242 2003; (p. 24)
— Review of Three Dog Night Peter Goldsworthy , 2003 single work novel
1 Recording Devils : Helen Garner's Cosmo Cosmolino and its critics Giselle Bastin , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 1992; (p. 49-55)
— Review of Cosmo Cosmolino Helen Garner , 1992 single work novel
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