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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Mudrooroo : A Critical Study
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Refuse/Refuge : Castaways on Islands of Exception Chris Prentice , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial Studies , vol. 25 no. 1 2023; (p. 11-29)

'At various points in their (post)colonial histories, the border-protective politics of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have mobilized off-shore islands as spaces of “inclusive exclusion”. Yet, even as spaces of exception and/or exclusion, off-shore islands dismantle inside/outside distinctions. I discuss a selection of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand novels featuring both literal and metaphorical islands used for removal, internment or containment of Indigenous peoples and wartime “enemy aliens”. Through their attention to the poetics of island form, and coasts as more-than-human spaces, the novels underscore how islands bring the relation between inside and outside into question, complicating the articulation of borders.'  (Publication abstract) 

Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series Clare Archer-Lean , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 175-188)
'Clare Archer-Lean focuses 'on the textual strategies of journey and impermanence. These can be understood through theoretical notions of trickster, a deliberately incoherent and slippery figure/story, alongside the symbolic ramification of water, representing movement and fluidity, to read Johnson's use of the journey motif. The journey motif in these works can be expanded to included the intra-textual journeys Johnson's writing carries out between its own past and present forms and how this self-referentiality constructs a challenge to the notion of a fixed and stable journal and record of any journey.' (175)
Untitled Michael Hayes , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 12 no. 2 1994; (p. 85-88)

— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study Adam Shoemaker , 1993 single work criticism
Untitled Gary Rosser , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 26 1993; (p. 77-80)

— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study Adam Shoemaker , 1993 single work criticism
Untitled Gary Rosser , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 26 1993; (p. 77-80)

— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study Adam Shoemaker , 1993 single work criticism
Untitled Michael Hayes , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 12 no. 2 1994; (p. 85-88)

— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study Adam Shoemaker , 1993 single work criticism
Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series Clare Archer-Lean , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 175-188)
'Clare Archer-Lean focuses 'on the textual strategies of journey and impermanence. These can be understood through theoretical notions of trickster, a deliberately incoherent and slippery figure/story, alongside the symbolic ramification of water, representing movement and fluidity, to read Johnson's use of the journey motif. The journey motif in these works can be expanded to included the intra-textual journeys Johnson's writing carries out between its own past and present forms and how this self-referentiality constructs a challenge to the notion of a fixed and stable journal and record of any journey.' (175)
Refuse/Refuge : Castaways on Islands of Exception Chris Prentice , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial Studies , vol. 25 no. 1 2023; (p. 11-29)

'At various points in their (post)colonial histories, the border-protective politics of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have mobilized off-shore islands as spaces of “inclusive exclusion”. Yet, even as spaces of exception and/or exclusion, off-shore islands dismantle inside/outside distinctions. I discuss a selection of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand novels featuring both literal and metaphorical islands used for removal, internment or containment of Indigenous peoples and wartime “enemy aliens”. Through their attention to the poetics of island form, and coasts as more-than-human spaces, the novels underscore how islands bring the relation between inside and outside into question, complicating the articulation of borders.'  (Publication abstract) 

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