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Dorothy Jones Dorothy Jones i(A17174 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1935 ;
Gender: Female
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1 Past Writings Dorothy Jones , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: ‘Whaddaya Know?’ : Writings for Syd Harrex 2015; (p. 106-130)
1 Trouble in Eden : Marion Halligan’s Shooting the Fox Dorothy Jones , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 34 no. 2 2012; (p. 184-190) 'Although the stories in Marion Halligan’s Shooting the Fox can be read independently, they also form an intricate whole where individual stories complement and reflect one another. A Garden of Eden, fruitful and safely enclosed until corruption and loss intervene, forms the book’s central motif. Language and communication are also important themes, as is the writer’s role in creating fictional worlds, where, serpent-like she introduces discord and betrayal to advance her narrative. Halligan’s opening story, gives the collection its name, establishing most of the book’s major ideas so that other stories appear to develop out of or relate back to it.' (Publication summary)
1 Untitled Dorothy Jones , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 26 no. 1 2011; (p. 103-105)
— Review of Serious Frolic : Essays on Australian Humour 2009 anthology criticism
1 2 y separately published work icon A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing Dorothy Jones , Melissa Boyde (editor), Ultimo : University of Wollongong Press , 2010 Z1753760 2010 selected work criticism 'A Kingdom and a Place of Exile: Postcolonial Women Writers is a collection of essays by Dorothy Jones on postcolonial texts written by or about women. [...] Her essays examine a diverse array of texts, prinicipally by writers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean and India. Issues of migration, diaspora and race sit, often uneasily, alongside nation-building, masculinist settler myths and imperialist regimes in the postcolonial environments of these works. Many of Jones essays concern themselves with physical location and mapping as well as with imaginative territories inhabited by writers and readers.' [From the book's Introduction by Melissa Boyde, p. 5]
1 Writing Food Writing Fiction Writing Life : Marion Halligan's Memoirs Dorothy Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting 2010; (p. 168-186)
1 Journeys and Pilgrimages : Marion Halligan's Fiction Dorothy Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 19-23)
1 Gendered Tree-scapes in the Art of Emily Carr and Judith Wright Anne Collett , Dorothy Jones , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Mosaic , September vol. 42 no. 3 2009; This essay explores the impact of gender, colonial inheritance, and European modernism upon the representation of landscape in general, and trees in particular, in the work of two female artists who achieved iconic national status in the twentieth century: Canadian painter Emily Carr and Australian poet Judith Wright.
1 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Colonial Girl: Emily Carr and Judith Wright Anne Collett , Dorothy Jones , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 44 no. 3 2009; (p. 51-67) In their autobiographical writing, painter Emily Carr and poet Judith Wright record a remarkably similar experience of how growing up in colonial/postcolonial Canada and Australia shaped them as artists. Although each identified strongly with the region of her birth, and felt a deep love of its landscape, issues of belonging preoccupied both women from childhood on as they negotiated their place within the family, the immediate society and the nation. Neither could fully conform to family expectations, nor comply with the restrictions society sought to impose on them as artists and each actively sought, or else found herself cast in, an outsider role. Carr and Wright's self portraits each have something in common with James Joyce's representation of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as an insider/outsider figure who seeks to escape the confining networks of nation and society, only to find himself thoroughly entangled in them.
1 Bottling the Forbidden Fruit: Marion Halligan's Fiction Dorothy Jones , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 3 2008; (p. 318-327) A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 149-157)
1 With Love and Fury : Selected Letters of Judith Wright Dorothy Jones , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 6 no. 1 2007; (p. 162-165)
— Review of With Love and Fury : Selected Letters of Judith Wright Judith Wright , 2006 selected work correspondence
1 'A Language We All Speak' : Food in Marion Halligan's Writing Dorothy Jones , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 28 no. 2 2006; (p. 162-171)

'Marion Halligan describes her memoir, A Taste of Memory, as a set of stories of her life in food, travel and especially gardens, those 'nourishing spaces'; but it also commemorates her husband, Graham, and their thirty-five year marriage. Food and gardens often appear as related themes in Halligan's fiction, where gardens symbolise suburban domestic space and food may be used to express both desire and social connection. This essay explores how, in A Taste of Memory and the two novels immediately preceding it, The Fog Garden and The Point, food and gardens are linked to themes of bereavement and loss.' - Kunapipi (p. 183).
1 Olga Masters Dorothy Jones , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers 1975-2000 2006; (p. 214-220)
1 Kate Llewellyn Dorothy Jones , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers 1975-2000 2006; (p. 202-207)
1 The Eloquent Sari Dorothy Jones , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Textile , vol. 2 no. 1 2004; (p. 52-63) A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 120-130)

'As part of India's aesthetically rich and politically complex textile tradition, saris are abundantly endowed with "the social life of things" as well as participating in the language of clothes. This article considers its representation in some Indian literary works as a focus for exploring acts of political and personal resistance against hegemonic authority. The sari can serve simultaneously as a sign both of the nation and of Indian womanhood while its rich array of associations has made it a valuable focal point for a number of Indian writers, both when representing major political events and when portraying the complexities of personal relationships and family life.'  (Publication abstract)
1 Two Dreamtimes : Representation of Indigeneity in the Work of Australian Poet Judith Wright and Canadian Artist Emily Carr Anne Collett , Dorothy Jones , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 26 no. 2 2004; (p. 105-121) In the poems of Judith Wright and the art of Canadian Emily Carr, both of them born of a colonialist people, Collett and Jones see a consciousness of aboriginal presence, recognising their 'struggle to articulate self (and nation) in relation to that presence - a presence that most of their generation chose either to ignore or repudiate.'
1 Embroidering the Nation Dorothy Jones , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Textile , vol. 1 no. 2 2003; (p. 174-193) A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 106-119)
1 Untitled Dorothy Jones , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Women's Writing , vol. 8 no. 3 (p. 475-477)
— Review of Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies : Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s 1999 anthology prose
1 Political Persons : Empire, Motherhood and State Control Dorothy Jones , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Compr(om)ising Post/colonialism(s) : Challenging Narratives and Practices 2001; (p. 174-181) Discusses various postcolonial texts, including Jolley's novel.
1 Rachel Henning (1826-1914) Dorothy Jones , 2001 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Literature, 1788-1914 2001; (p. 188-192)
1 Defining Self and Others through Textile and Text Dorothy Jones , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Women's Writing , vol. 8 no. 3 (p. 375-389)
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