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David Callahan David Callahan i(A6703 works by)
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
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1 East Timor's First Film : Beatriz's War, History and Remediation David Callahan , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 10 no. 3 2016; (p. 293-305) East Timor is a country of which the totality of feature films made in or about it are history films, including East Timor’s first locally controlled feature film, Beatriz’s War (East Timor-Australia, 2013). Beatriz’s War places at the centre of its story a historical event, but surprisingly remediates it through a French film set in the sixteenth century, The Return of Martin Guerre (1982). This article investigates the former’s use of the latter in terms of the desire for verifiability, stories which a polity believes are useful, the failure of truth commissions in East Timor, and the need for local witness to make stories have meaning with respect to issues in the present.
1 Writing East Timor for Children : Mobilizing Sympathy David Callahan , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship , September vol. 22 no. 2 2016; (p. 108-123) 'Novels about East Timor in English and Portuguese for children have been scarce. Despite a contemporary background of revisionist approaches to history, the nationalist focus of such material means that certain stories are handled rarely, even those that interpellate the nation in some way. This article examines ways in which support for East Timor is underwritten in the few novels for children and young adults that deal with East Timor in English and Portuguese, concluding with a brief assessment of the extent to which they realize Herbert Kohl’s suggestions of appropriate strategies for what he terms “Radical Children’s Literature.”'
1 [Review] Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity David Callahan , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 51 no. 3 2015; (p. 367-368)
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity Michèle Grossman , 2013 single work criticism
1 Book Review : The Claimant David Callahan , 2014 single work
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 21 no. 2 2014; (p. 233)
— Review of The Claimant Janette Turner Hospital , 2014 single work novel
1 'Admirable People, though Limited' : On Not Submitting in Australian Literature David Callahan , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ex-centric Writing : Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction 2013; (p. 135-152)
1 [Review] Questions of Travel David Callahan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 6 no. 1 2013;
— Review of Questions of Travel Michelle De Kretser , 2012 single work novel
1 [Untitled] David Callahan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 5 no. 2 2013;
— Review of The Splintered Glass : Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond 2011 anthology criticism
1 Australian Popular Fiction and the Moral Drama of East Timor David Callahan , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Understanding Timor-Leste 2013 : Proceedings of the Timor-Leste Studies Association Conference, 15-16 July 2013 2013; (p. 246-250) 'From the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in 1975 until the referendum on independence in 1999 and up until the present, East Timor has been a place whose destiny Australian governments have felt they have the right to intervene in. Indeed, this assumed right goes back to the invasion of neutral Portuguese Timor by Australian forces in World War II, thereby condemning thousands of Timorese to their deaths at the hands of Japanese soldiers. Of this initial assumption of Australia’s agency in East Timor there has been surprisingly little creative remediation, although there has been much and moving commentary in nonfiction. The marginality of Portuguese Timor to Australia in the 1940s may be read both in the decision to invade and in subsequent uninterest in interpreting what is one of Australia's closest neighbours. Although the Indonesian invasion and brutal occupation vastly increased the amount of coverage given to the territory, somehow this too was almost never accompanied by the analytical possibilities of creative work. From Tony Maniaty’s anguished representation of the period immediately before the invasion, The Children Must Dance (1987), through Gail Jones’s theoretically reflective short story ‘Other Places’ (1992), Bill Green’s satire on Australian political immorality, Cleaning Up (1993), or Libby Gleeson’s book for children Refuge (1998), to take some of the registers through which the country was dealt with, East Timor was rarely processed in Australia through the protocols of imaginative narrative (on these texts, see Callahan 2010; 2012a; 2012b).' (Introduction)
1 Failing to Meet in the Middle : East Timor and Gail Jones's "Other Places" David Callahan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 137-142)
1 Processing Australia in Portuguese Narratives of East Timor David Callahan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Percursos e Representações da Pós-colonialidade / Journeys: Postcolonial Trajectories and Representations 2012; (p. 121-138) 'Australia features large and often in Portuguese non-fiction dealing with East Timor. In general, as might be expected, Australia is perceived extremely negatively as the obstructor of decolonisation and facilitator of Indonesian oppression, seen in the Portuguese media, and in official Portuguese discourse, as a hypocritical lackey of the hypocritical U.S. This article will examine some of the relatively few fictional narratives in Portuguese that deal with East Timor for the ways in which they construct Australia and the aspects of the issues they concentrate on, in part to determine how the emphases visible in non-fictional sources have been developed or not within the resources of fiction' (Author's abstract).
1 Marginal Place, Marginal Plays : East Timor in Australian Drama David Callahan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Drouth , no. 42 2012; (p. 26-29)
1 Re-visiting East Timor as Fiction and as Memoir : The Work of Tony Maniaty David Callahan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and History , vol. 21 no. 2 2012; (p. 66-77)
1 Review David Callahan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 2 no. 1 2011; (p. 142-144)
— Review of Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia vol. 2 no. 1 David Callahan (editor), 2011 Z1802183 2011 periodical issue
1 Untitled David Callahan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 3 no. 2 2011;
— Review of Finding Santana Jill Jolliffe , 2010 single work biography
1 Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative : An Account of the Socio-topographic Construction of Space in Australian Literature David Callahan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 47 no. 3 2011;
— Review of Ob-Scene Spaces in Australian Narrative : An Account of the Socio-Topographic Construction of Space in Australian Literature Pablo Armellino , 2009 multi chapter work criticism
1 Untitled David Callahan , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 4 no. 4 2010;
— Review of Australian Literature and the Symbolist Movement John Hawke , 2009 single work criticism
1 History and Shame : East Timor in Australian Fictions David Callahan , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial Studies , November vol. 12 no. 3 2010; (p. 401-414) This essay examines a series of Australian texts in an attempt to perceive the ways in which East Timor has functioned as a test of the operation of Australian memory and the processing of national shame over the failure of the nation to aid a neighbouring people who had aided Australia at great cost during the Second World War. After introducing the notion of shame and the contrast between official Australian policy and public sentiment over the issue of East Timor from the date of the Indonesian invasion in 1975, a contrast rooted in the nation's sense of itself as being a sponsor of freedom, democracy and the fair go, the essay examines a series of fictional texts dealing with East Timor in some way, and then returns to the concept of shame and its relevance in this context. The texts dealt with include fiction for adults and children: Tony Maniaty's The Children Must Dance (1984), Gail Jones's Other Places (1992), Bill Green's Cleaning Up (1993), Kerry Collison's The Timor Man (1998), Libby Gleeson's Refuge (1998) and Josef Vondra's No-name Bird (2000), along with the Australian-Canadian miniseries Answered by Fire (2006) and the Australian film Balibo (Robert Connolly, 2009). As expected, concerned observers share many features of their reaction to events in East Timor, but inevitably, as they read East Timor they are also reading Australia and its relation to an ethics of conviction that might have dealt more honourably with the invasion and oppression on its doorstep. The analysis draws on the work of Jeffrey Olick, Avishai Margalit and Michael Morgan in its approach to regret, shame and memory.
1 Castro's Adventure David Callahan , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 27)
— Review of Brian Castro's Fiction : The Seductive Play of Language Bernadette Brennan , 2008 multi chapter work criticism
1 'Their Graves Are Green, They May Be Seen': Geoff Page’s 'Visible Histories' David Callahan , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 1 no. 2009; (p. 64-72) 'Geoff Page's most sustained approach to settler history as twinned achievement and failure appears in the triptych: Invisible Histories (1989), The Great Forgetting (1996) and Freehold (2005). In these mixed-genre texts Page writes obsessively from within the contemporary dispensation of the politics of regret, searching for registers and modes in which responsible witness may be carried out with respect to the foundational historical myths of the nation. The problem with foundation chronicles for the ancestors of people who invaded, murdered and appropriated the land of others can be referred to the current debate around the notions of "guilt" and "shame". Despite Page's collaboration with the Aboriginal artist Pooaraar in The Great Forgetting, and his ambition to bring differing stories into a useful confluence, the task of writing a healing history might be impossible for reasons that lie beyond the writer's strategies or good-will.' Source: David Callahan.
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