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Inez Baranay's Literary Career
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 21 no. 2 2007; (p. 111-115) Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 17-32)'When Inez Baranay’s seventh book, Neem Dreams, was released in September 2003, it met with wide critical acclaim in India, yet was barely noticed in Australia. Baranay had been publishing in Australia for almost 20 years, but this novel was published in India, indicating a shift in her publishing career. While Neem Dreams continues Baranay’s interest in issues of Third-World development and with Western tourism, travel and trade, I propose in this chapter that it also engages with Australian literary criticism, especially in postcolonial debates. Neem Dreams was released almost a decade after Baranay’s nonfiction text, Rascal Rain (1994), which met with fierce criticism. That decade was one in which Baranay addressed that criticism, contemporary theory and the academy. I argue, therefore, that Neem Dreams signals Baranay’s uneasy relationship with Australian writing, publishing and identity, as well as her changed attitude to the academy and contemporary theory. While the back cover blurb of Neem Dreams alerts us to the neem tree ‘acting as a kind of crucible for India’, I want to argue that, in many ways, postcolonial theory is the crucible for this book. In this chapter then, I offer a reading of Baranay’s literary career from 1994 to 2004 through its encounters with the academy, with Rascal Rain and Neem Dreams operating as bookends. Her substantial and productive career means that shifts in institutional and political discourses become evident in tracing the ways in which Baranay’s texts and career are read (and written). I am interested in the kinds of questions a career such as hers raises about the imbrication of theory and fiction and the circulation of authority among writers, critics and the academy.' (Introduction)
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Fraught Territory
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 62 no. 3 2003; (p. 223-229) -
Theory Couldn't Help Me
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 25 no. 1 1998; (p. 52-56) -
Aid Work, Travel and Representation: Inez Baranay's Rascal Rain and Alice Walker's Warrior Marks
1997
single work
prose
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 24 no. 2 1997; (p. 44-54) -
Preoccupied by `Essentials'
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 137 1994; (p. 86)
— Review of Rascal Rain : A Year in Papua New Guinea 1994 single work autobiography
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Remote but Without Control
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 160 1994; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Rascal Rain : A Year in Papua New Guinea 1994 single work autobiography -
Unfair Contest
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 May 1994; (p. wkd 7)
— Review of Rascal Rain : A Year in Papua New Guinea 1994 single work autobiography -
Missionaries and Rascals
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 June 1994; (p. 8)
— Review of Rascal Rain : A Year in Papua New Guinea 1994 single work autobiography ; The Soul Stone 1993 single work novel -
A Year in the PNG Highlands
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 June 1994; (p. 14)
— Review of Rascal Rain : A Year in Papua New Guinea 1994 single work autobiography -
Tedium from an Ingenue Abroad
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 June 1994; (p. rev 6)
— Review of Rascal Rain : A Year in Papua New Guinea 1994 single work autobiography -
Fraught Territory
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 62 no. 3 2003; (p. 223-229) -
Inez Baranay's Literary Career
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 21 no. 2 2007; (p. 111-115) Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 17-32)'When Inez Baranay’s seventh book, Neem Dreams, was released in September 2003, it met with wide critical acclaim in India, yet was barely noticed in Australia. Baranay had been publishing in Australia for almost 20 years, but this novel was published in India, indicating a shift in her publishing career. While Neem Dreams continues Baranay’s interest in issues of Third-World development and with Western tourism, travel and trade, I propose in this chapter that it also engages with Australian literary criticism, especially in postcolonial debates. Neem Dreams was released almost a decade after Baranay’s nonfiction text, Rascal Rain (1994), which met with fierce criticism. That decade was one in which Baranay addressed that criticism, contemporary theory and the academy. I argue, therefore, that Neem Dreams signals Baranay’s uneasy relationship with Australian writing, publishing and identity, as well as her changed attitude to the academy and contemporary theory. While the back cover blurb of Neem Dreams alerts us to the neem tree ‘acting as a kind of crucible for India’, I want to argue that, in many ways, postcolonial theory is the crucible for this book. In this chapter then, I offer a reading of Baranay’s literary career from 1994 to 2004 through its encounters with the academy, with Rascal Rain and Neem Dreams operating as bookends. Her substantial and productive career means that shifts in institutional and political discourses become evident in tracing the ways in which Baranay’s texts and career are read (and written). I am interested in the kinds of questions a career such as hers raises about the imbrication of theory and fiction and the circulation of authority among writers, critics and the academy.' (Introduction)
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Aid Work, Travel and Representation: Inez Baranay's Rascal Rain and Alice Walker's Warrior Marks
1997
single work
prose
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 24 no. 2 1997; (p. 44-54) -
Theory Couldn't Help Me
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 25 no. 1 1998; (p. 52-56)
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