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Refuse/Refuge : Castaways on Islands of Exception
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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Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series
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)
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Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 12 no. 2 1994; (p. 85-88)
— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study 1993 single work criticism -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 26 1993; (p. 77-80)
— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study 1993 single work criticism
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Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 26 1993; (p. 77-80)
— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study 1993 single work criticism -
Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 12 no. 2 1994; (p. 85-88)
— Review of Mudrooroo : A Critical Study 1993 single work criticism -
Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series
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)
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Refuse/Refuge : Castaways on Islands of Exception
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)
- Wild Cat Falling 1965 single work novel
- Long Live Sandawara : A Novel 1979 single work novel
- Wildcat Screaming : A Novel 1992 single work novel
- Struggling 1990 single work short story
- Doin Wildcat : A Novel Koori Script 1988 single work novel
- The Kwinkan 1993 single work novel
- Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 1983 single work novel
- Master of the Ghost Dreaming 1991 single work novel
- Dalwurra : The Black Bittern : A Poem Cycle 1988 selected work poetry
- The Garden of Gethsemane : Poems from the Lost Decade 1991 selected work poetry
- The Song Circle of Jacky and Selected Poems 1986 selected work poetry