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1 Reading Across the Pacific, Reorienting “North” Diana Brydon , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Past & Present : Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies : Essays for Paul Sharrad 2018; (p. 30–47)

'Paul Sharrad's long career sets an enviable standard for modelling locally inflected, postcolonial reading strategies, which work out from his Australian place to read across the Pacific and into the wider world, illuminating literary history, transnational entanglements, and a specifically Pacific literary aesthetic, incorporating both texts and textiles. In this essay, I seek to honour his achievements by reading back across the Pacific, from my location in Canada, to address current representations of the North in Canada and Australia within global contexts of lived connections across cultures. Thinking about the many lessons Sharrad's work offers about cross-cultural translation in colonial and postcolonial times, I raise some agenda-setting questions here. '  (Introduction)
1 Experimental Writing and Reading across Borders in Decolonizing Contexts Diana Brydon , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ariel , January - April vol. 47 no. 1-2 2016; (p. 27-58) 'Reading across epistemic borders in a globalizing world requires a revised understanding of how experimentation functions in decolonizing contexts by intervening to trouble the prevailing paradigms through which readers understand how meanings are made. Experimental fictions free the imagination to envision cognitive and social justice, which take different forms within different settings. By examining several texts written out of contexts of incomplete decolonization and ongoing imperialism in Canada, Australia, and the Caribbean, this paper shows how their various innovations navigate the problems of scale and generate new forms for representing cognitive justice in its many different potential manifestations, thus revealing the vitality of nonscalable worlds and the links between the scalable and the nonscalable. Wilson Harris’ music of living landscapes is set in dialogue with Alexis Wright’s fictions; Patrick White’s artist as vivisector with Christian Bök’s The Xenotext; Dionne Brand’s quest for a cognitive schema beyond captivity with Wright’s and Tomson Highway’s turns to the space/time imaginaries of their people; and Shani Mootoo’s small island world with Jamaica Kincaid’s small place.' (Publication abstract)
1 'Difficult Forms of Knowing' : Enquiry, Injury, and Translocated Relations of Postcolonial Responsibility Diana Brydon , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Translocations : Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking 2013; (p. 3-28) 'An essay is presented on the phrase "difficult forms of knowing" given by Australian writer Gail Jones. The author argues that stories and poems cannot stand alone despite being among the most powerful measures to address the challenges in postcolonial. It examines the work of one disciplinary imaginary through another by using the concepts of planetarity by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Paul Gilroy.' (Publication abstract)
1 [Review] Christina Stead : Satirist Diana Brydon , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 21 no. 1 2003; (p. 124-127)
— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism ; The Enigmatic Christina Stead : A Provocative Re-Reading Teresa Petersen , 2001 single work criticism
1 Refabricating the Unfashionable Real Diana Brydon , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 48-49)
— Review of The House of Breathing Gail Jones , 1992 selected work short story
1 Trousered Women : Cross-Dressing in Some Contemporary Australian and Canadian Texts Diana Brydon , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Talent(ed) Digger : Creations, Cameos, and Essays in Honour of Anna Rutherford 1996; (p. 184-190)
1 Australian Cultural Debates Erupt Diana Brydon , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 171)
— Review of Framing Marginality : Multicultural Literary Studies Sneja Gunew , 1994 multi chapter work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Decolonising Fictions Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , Sydney : Dangaroo Press , 1993 Z203122 1993 single work criticism
1 Australian Literature and the Canadian Comparison Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonising Fictions 1993; (p. 55-56)
1 Decolonising Fictions : Conclusion Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonising Fictions 1993; (p. 143-151)
1 Writing and Reading Cultures: Randolph Stow's `Visitants' and Rudy Wiebe's `The Temptations of Big Bear' Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonising Fictions 1993; (p. 127-141)
1 Resistance and Repetition: V.S. Naipaul's 'Guerrillas', Jean Rhys's 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and Randolph Stow's 'Visitants' Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonising Fictions 1993; (p. 105-125)
1 `The Thematic Ancestor': Conrad, White and Atwood Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonising Fictions 1993; (p. 89-104)
1 West Indian Literature and the Australian Comparison Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonising Fictions 1993; (p. 35-53)
1 Decolonising Fictions : Introduction Diana Brydon , Helen Tiffin , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Decolonising Fictions 1993; (p. 11-33)
1 Living in an Instant Myth: A Canadian Student Remembers the Whitlam Years Diana Brydon , 1993 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , June no. 9 1993; (p. 86-88)
1 The Stone's Memory : An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital Diana Brydon (interviewer), 1991 single work interview
— Appears in: Commonwealth Novel in English , Spring vol. 4 no. 1 1991; (p. 14-23)
1 Contracts with the World : Redefining Home, Identity and Community in Aidoo, Brodber, Garner and Rule Diana Brydon , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Novel Since 1960 1991; (p. 198-215)
1 Buffoon Odysseys: Australian Expatriate Fiction by Women Diana Brydon , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aspects of Australian Fiction : Essays Presented to John Colmer, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of Adelaide 1990; (p. 73-85)
1 "Other Tongues Than Ours": Christina Stead's I'm Dying Laughing Diana Brydon , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , Fall no. 2 1989; (p. 17-26)
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