AustLit
Alternative title:
Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms
Issue Details:
First known date:
2009...
vol.
24
no.
3-4
October/November
2009
of
Australian Literary Studies
est. 1963
Australian Literary Studies
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Guest Editors: Margaret Henderson and Ann Vickery
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Generations Lost and Found : Reading Women Writers Together,
single work
criticism
(p. 39-52)The articles discusses reading a group of women writers together as a manifestation of literary feminism. It focuses on Australian women born between 1912 and 1928 which were often overlooked in their own lifetime, particularly in the decades after the Second World War, and mostly did not know each other.
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Manifesto of the Senses : Blind Sightedness in Christina Stead's For Love Alone,
single work
criticism
(p. 53-65)'What I aim to show in this essay is how and with what personal and political force the narrative re-presents the reading process itself, how it demands the reader's active co-operation and interpretation, to the point of entrapping us in blindness - or rather in a blind sightedness - that doubles that of its protagonist, Teresa Hawkins. In so doing, the novel performs the questions it poses about romance and realism, idealism and materialism, and conveys, inter alia, its response to mid-twentieth century debates about the literature of revolution.' (53-54)
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Reading Institutional Women : A Nexus Approach to Bourdieu, Summer Heights High, and the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley,
single work
criticism
(p. 66-78)The essay uses Bourdieu's theories to show the ways in which some key female characters in institutions in Lilley's Summer Heights High and Jolley's fiction support the workings of institutional patriarchal power. In the final section, the author draws on the concept of 'heterotopia', in order to discuss the ways in which 'these texts contest masculine institutional paradigms, and explore the limits and possibilities of the alternative views offered by these fictions' (74).
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Along Gender Lines : Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1939 to 2006,
single work
criticism
(p. 79-95)Using AustLit database records, the author examines the number and proportion of Australian novels published from 1930 to 2006 by wo/men, the genre of these novels, and possible trends revealed. The essay concentrates on the implications of a quantitive reassessment of Australian literary history for feminist understandings of that history.Note: Available via ANU Digital Collections.
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Indigenous Sovereignty in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton,
single work
criticism
(p. 108-120)'In this essay, I examine the ways in which Moreton's literary oeuvre figures Indigeneity through the trope of sovereignty while also foregrounding the gendered nature of Indigenous subjectivity' (108).
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The Significance of Littoral in Beverley Farmer's Novel The Seal Woman,
single work
criticism
(p. 121-132)This essay 'offers some thoughts on the transformative possibility of the littoral in Beverley Farmer's novel The Seal Woman, and a brief discussion of Farmer's particular deployment of littoral as feminine or even feminist' (121).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Theorising the Madwoman : Fictocritical Incursions - A Performance
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 14 no. 2 2010; '‘Theorising the madwoman : fictocritical incursions - a performance’ is an intervention into the politics of naming and writing about women’s madness in literature. Using fictocritical tactics, this article stages a dialogue between the madwoman and the critic to make visible ‘the fiction of the disembodied scholar’ deployed in textual criticism. Sometimes speaking as the madwoman, sometimes as the feminist critic, I aim to destabilise the voice of the objective scholar, while continuing to lay some claim to it. Polyvocal in arrangement, discordant and offbeat in its strategies, and fictocritical in its tactics and stylistics, this article is an incursion into, rather than an interpretation of, women’s madness. Using a hybrid of fictional strategies, feminist scholarship, and personal experience, I allow the madwoman to interrupt, challenge and resist the interpretive project, by careening into it. Provisional, disorderly and subversive, fictocriticism offers a way of thinking through, rather than thinking about women’s madness. It seems particularly suited to an investigation of the madwoman in literature, as it dramatises the very disorder and instability the madwoman is said to embody.' (Author's abstract)
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Theorising the Madwoman : Fictocritical Incursions - A Performance
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 14 no. 2 2010; '‘Theorising the madwoman : fictocritical incursions - a performance’ is an intervention into the politics of naming and writing about women’s madness in literature. Using fictocritical tactics, this article stages a dialogue between the madwoman and the critic to make visible ‘the fiction of the disembodied scholar’ deployed in textual criticism. Sometimes speaking as the madwoman, sometimes as the feminist critic, I aim to destabilise the voice of the objective scholar, while continuing to lay some claim to it. Polyvocal in arrangement, discordant and offbeat in its strategies, and fictocritical in its tactics and stylistics, this article is an incursion into, rather than an interpretation of, women’s madness. Using a hybrid of fictional strategies, feminist scholarship, and personal experience, I allow the madwoman to interrupt, challenge and resist the interpretive project, by careening into it. Provisional, disorderly and subversive, fictocriticism offers a way of thinking through, rather than thinking about women’s madness. It seems particularly suited to an investigation of the madwoman in literature, as it dramatises the very disorder and instability the madwoman is said to embody.' (Author's abstract)
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