AustLit
Issues
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 38 no. 3 19 December 2023 27304333 2023 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies Literary Value vol. 38 no. 2 31 October 2023 27098777 2023 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 38 no. 1 2 May 2023 26199480 2023 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 37 no. 3 11 December 2022 25542510 2022 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 37 no. 2 30 September 2022 25281392 2022 periodical issue
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Australian Literary Studies
Special Issue : Writing Disability in Australia
vol.
37
no.
1
May
2022
24546239
2022
periodical issue
'Poet Andy Jackson begins his collection Human Looking with a poem titled ‘Opening.’ This signals not only the opening of his book but an ‘incision’ which begins ‘below the back of the neck / and ends just above the coccyx’ (3). Jackson, who has Marfan syndrome, is referring to one of numerous surgeries conducted on his body which leave ‘a thick scar – a blurred, insistent line. / As each layer of skin dies, it whispers to the next / the form and story of the wound. / This is how I continue, intact.’ The word ‘intact’ suggests that the wound’s ‘form and story’ are sealed. They are stitched up and closed over by medical professionals who deem disabled people broken and in need of fixing. As Jackson ‘strain[s] to lift this too-heavy object, / the long suture ruptures / in my head’ (3). The burdensome narrative of his condition – one which has been imposed upon him – has sprung apart. He then addresses the reader, ‘You might think this visceral confession / only an image of mine. But you are becoming / this unstitching, this sudden opening’ (3). The transition in Jackson’s address from first person to second person, and the shift from a noun (‘image’) to a verb (‘becoming’), directs the attention away from his appearance to the reader, who now has a role to play not in staring at Jackson’s image, but in participating in the construction of what his story can be. It is an invitation to be open to all that disability engenders: not stereotypical stories of deficit, but creativity, ingenuity and possibility.' (Amanda Tink, Jessica White : Introduction : Writing Disability in Australia : introduction)
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 36 no. 3 October 2021 23584661 2021 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies The Uses of Irish-Australian Literature vol. 36 no. 2 2021 23273573 2021 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 36 no. 1 30 April 2021 21776484 2021 periodical issue
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Australian Literary Studies
vol.
35
no.
2
29 October
2020
20738432
2020
periodical issue
'For our second issue of 2020 we bring you a wide range of approaches to thinking about literature in Australia: these are essays that test the relationship between writing, politics, and history, undertake detailed consideration of language and imagery, and work at the intersection between literary and media history, and literary studies and pedagogy.' (Introduction)
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 35 no. 1 April 2020 19246064 2020 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 34 no. 2 19 December 2020 18490716 2020 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 34 no. 1 July 2019 16900476 2019 periodical issue
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Australian Literary Studies
Genre Worlds : Popular Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
vol.
33
no.
4
December
Kim Wilkins
(editor),
Beth Driscoll
(editor),
Lisa Fletcher
(editor),
2018
15353118
2018
periodical issue
Special edition of Australian Literary Studies, drawing from the research project Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in the Twenty-First Century.
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 33 no. 3 November 2018 15010388 2018 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 33 no. 2 9 July 2018 14162819 2018 periodical issue
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Australian Literary Studies
Thematising Women in the Work of J. M. Coetzee
vol.
33
no.
1
February
2018
12964671
2018
periodical issue
'All but one of the essays in this special issue called ‘Thematising Women in the Work of J. M. Coetzee’ were first presented at the 'Reading Coetzee’s Women' conference convened by Prof. Sue Kossew and Dr Melinda Harvey at Monash University’s Prato Centre in Italy in September 2016. We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the Faculty of Arts at Monash University that enabled the conference to take place. The topic of women in Coetzee’s writing is of ongoing interest and importance, and the essays in this special issue address it in different ways – although most, to some extent, ponder the intentions and effects of what Carrol Clarkson in her lead essay memorably dubs his narrative strategy of ‘womanizing’. One of the features of the conference was a translators’ panel where a number of Coetzee’s translators discussed their approaches to the challenges presented by his work, and this discussion is represented here by a standalone essay by Coetzee’s Italian translator, Franca Cavagnoli.' (Introduction)
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 32 no. 2 September 2017 12015260 2017 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies vol. 32 no. 1 February 2017 10770510 2017 periodical issue
- y Australian Literary Studies Rediscovering Christina Stead vol. 31 no. 6 8 December 2016 10502211 2016 periodical issue