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y separately published work icon Crossing Lines : Formations of Australian Culture : Proceedings of Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Adelaide, 1995 anthology   criticism   biography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Crossing Lines : Formations of Australian Culture : Proceedings of Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Adelaide, 1995
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Adelaide, South Australia,:Association for the Study of Australian Literature , 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Gender, Genera, Genre, and Geography: Colonial Women's Writing and the Uses of Botany, Susan K. Martin , single work criticism (p. 30-39)
One Woman's Testimony: Louisa Anne Meredith's Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, Judith Johnston , single work criticism (p. 40-45)
Space Exploration: Catherine Martin, Australia, the World, the Universe and Whatever, Kevin Gilding , single work criticism biography
The author explores Catherine Martin's adaptation of the epic tradition to probe Australian national ideals and to include women. He discusses the effects of the 1891 textual omissions from An Australian Girl.
 (p. 61-70)
The Place of Desire, Ivor Indyk , single work criticism (p. 71-77)
Unfamiliar Selves : Ion L. Idriess and Melanesia, Robert Dixon , single work criticism biography (p. 78-83)
Playing with Dolls: Masculinity and Desire in `Summer of the Seventeenth Doll', Catherine Cecilia Pratt , single work criticism (p. 84-88)
Fictocriticism: Pedagogy and Practice, Anne Brewster , single work criticism biography (p. 89-92)
Discourses of the Sacred in Aboriginal Writing, Lyn McCredden , single work criticism (p. 102-107)
Filling 'Terra Nullius': Bony in the Deathspace, Kay Torney Souter , single work criticism (p. 108-112)
The Literature of Dispossession: Subversion of Elitist Nationalism in Dalit and Aboriginal Texts, Debjani Ganguly , single work criticism (p. 113-122)
Australian Autobiography and the Politics of Narrating Post - Colonial Space, Anna Johnston , single work criticism

'The paper argues that the postcolonial settler/invader autobiography is a textual negotiation of-and-on an ambivalent site of utterance, with reference to A. B. Facey's A Fortunate Life and Merv Lilley's Gatton Man.' (Author's abstract)

 (p. 130-135)
House Arrest: Domestic Space in Christina Stead's Fiction, Jennifer A. McDonell , single work criticism biography (p. 136-143)
Near the Heart of the Imperial Ethic: Imperialism Patriarchy and the Boarding School in The Getting of Wisdom, Mandy Treagus , single work criticism
Dyson argues that the boarding school in The Getting of Wisdom is a site where the ideology of imperialism and patriarchy are dispensed, producing new children of the empire. Laura's resistance to this highlights the colonial discourse in the novel and suggests that Richardson wrote a radical critique of the culture within the walls of the school and the colonial world outside.
 (p. 144-148)
Francis Adams (1862-1893): The Dilemma of the Cultivated Radical, Meg Tasker , single work criticism biography (p. 149-153)
Christina Stead and the Natural Uncanny, Manfred Mackenzie , single work criticism (p. 154-158)
Look at Me, Ma--I'm Going to be a Marginal Writer!, Ania Walwicz , single work criticism biography (p. 162-164)
Imprinting/Erasing Women, Carol Merli , Paul Salzman , single work criticism (p. 175-181)
Basic Bullshit: Lesbian Detective Fiction and the Lesbian and Gay Press, Deborah Hunn , single work criticism (p. 182-187)
Colonisation/Globalisation: An Argument in Support of Regional Literatures, John Salter , single work criticism (p. 197-201)
Tracking the Body: Dorothy Porter's The Monkey's Mask, Rose Lucas , single work criticism (p. 202-207)
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