AustLit

Rowe reads Porter's plays 'in order to talk about ethics and literature, arguing for a narrative model of ethical reflection that recognises the constitutive role of narrative (literary, social, personal) in ethical being '(Editorial p.8).

Discusses the importance of 'choreographic moments' in the two novels, focusing 'specifically on the acts of dance portrayed in the texts, discussing the movements performed and the characteristics of the dancers performing.'

Examines Jolley's relationship with her own mother and explores the conlicts between mothers and daughters in two of her works.

Proposes a fresh reading of the novel as being essentially 'about writers and writing, and how they fit into the world around them' (p.121).

Issues of writing, language and power are central to Kim Scott's Benang. Lisa Slater identifies some of the ethical difficulties faced by Scott in writing Benang ... before discussing some of the narrative strategies Scott employs to destabilise fixed notions of identity and open up a space for cross-cultural dialogue ' (Editorial p. 9).

'This essay examines the retrospective gaze of two Australian feminist intellectuals, focusing on the rhetorical operations by which the personal and public lives of women are rendered interchangeble, as are their embodied subjectivities and their literary work' (p.173).

This essay argues that Franklin's diaries are a performance of privacy and authenticity, through a consideration of her diary audience. Her diaries do not reveal an artificial Franklin, but rather challenge the notion that diaries produce authentic representations of their diarists (p.185).