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Biography, History and Democracy : Contemporary Writing about Australian Lives
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 48 no. 2 2024; (p. 165-178)'Biography is one of the most potent arts of democracy because it links the individual to the body politic and to history. It stands in parallel with independent long-form journalism. Whereas independent journalism is under threat, biography is currently one of the most popular and productive genres of publishing, breaking down the stratification of readership associated with almost every other category of writing. In the academy, the status of biography has transformed over the last few decades, with historians embracing the genre, literary studies scholars experimenting with form, and a wealth of new infrastructure embedding biographical inquiry in Australia. The biographical turn in Australia has brought the two disciplines of history and literary studies closer together and enriched their scholarship. David Marr’s Patrick White, Fiona Capp’s My Blood’s Country, Mark McKenna’s Return to Uluru and Alexis Wright’s Tracker are just some examples of the field over the last 30 years. This article considers the principles underpinning contemporary biography and its practice. It reflects on the particular challenges of writing about living subjects, negotiating intimacy and privacy, and the uses of empathic listening in biographical interviews. It also explores the value of collective biography as a genre of current significance.' (Publication abstract)
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Sexuality in Patrick White’s Fiction
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 135-147)'This chapter will build on recent work by Elizabeth McMahon and Christos Tsiolkas to situate Australia’s first Nobel Prize winner as a queer modernist with his own distinct political valence. Written by the foremost Chinese scholar of Australian literature, Chen Hong, this chapter explores Whites epochal career. It covers White’s novelistic oeuvre from The Aunt’s Story (1948) through to his late queer masterpiece, The Twyborn Affair (1979).' (Publication abstract)
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What I’m Reading
2018
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column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018; -
Books That Changed Me Robin Barker
2015
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column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 31 May 2015; (p. 12) -
Geoffrey Dutton : Little Adelaide and New York Nowhere
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 183-198)
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Off the Shelf
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 30 August vol. 57 no. 48 1991; (p. 30-31)
— Review of Autumn 1991 single work novel ; Patrick White : A Life 1991 single work biography ; Bitterbloom 1991 single work novel -
A Life Apart from Patrick White
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Society , August vol. 10 no. 8 1991; (p. 34-35)
— Review of Patrick White : A Life 1991 single work biography -
A Long and Varied Life Richly Told
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 July 1991; (p. rev 4)
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A Noble Life
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , April 1991; (p. 18)
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A Summit of its Own
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Voices , Summer (1991-1992) vol. 1 no. 4 1991; (p. 94-96)
— Review of Patrick White : A Life 1991 single work biography - y A Chinese Perspective on Australian Literature Aodaliya wen xue lun ji Beijing : 外语教学与研究出版社 外语教学与研究出版社 , 1994 Z1273961 1994 selected work criticism essay This bi-lingual collection of works published previously contains fourteen critical essays in Chinese and seven in English.
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How Have Biographies Been Written and How Can They Be?
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , Summer no. 16 1992; (p. 139-143) -
A Champion of Human Rights and Freedom of Speech
2009
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column
— Appears in: Sydney Pen Magazine , November 2009; (p. 6-7) -
"The Real Voss as Opposed to the Actual Leichhardt": Biography, Art, and Patrick White
1993
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criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 7 no. 2 1993; (p. 139-141) -
The Solid Mandala and Patrick White’s Late Modernity
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011; 'This essay contends that the Australian novelist Patrick White (1912-1990) presents, in his novel The Solid Mandala (1966), a prototypical evocation of late modernity that indicates precisely why and how it was different from the neoliberal and postmodern era that succeeded it. Late modernity is currently emerging as a historical period, though still a nascent and contested one. Robert Hassan speaks of the 1950-1970 era as a period which, in its 'Fordist' mode of production maintained a certain conformity yet held off the commoditisation of later neoliberalism's 'network-driven capitalism'. This anchors the sense of 'late modernity,' that will operate in this essay, though my sense of the period also follows on definitions of the term established, in very different contexts, by Edward Lucie-Smith and Tyrus Miller.' (Author's introduction)
Awards
- 1992 winner NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Lysbeth Cohen Memorial Prize
- 1992 winner The TDK Australian Audio Book Awards — Adult Literature and Overall Winner
- 1992 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
- 1992 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- 1992 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- The Aunt's Story 1948 single work novel
- The Ploughman and Other Poems 1935 selected work poetry
- Happy Valley : A Novel 1939 single work novel
- The Tree of Man 1955 single work novel
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- Riders in the Chariot 1961 single work novel
- The Ham Funeral 1947 single work drama
- The Season at Sarsaparilla : A Charade of Suburbia in Two Acts 1962 single work drama
- A Cheery Soul 1965 single work drama
- Night on Bald Mountain 1964 single work drama
- The Solid Mandala 1966 single work novel
- The Vivisector 1970 single work novel
- The Eye of the Storm 1973 single work novel
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel
- Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait 1981 single work autobiography
- Memoirs of Many in One 1986 single work novel
- Three Uneasy Pieces 1987 selected work short story
- Return to Abyssinia 1964 single work criticism
- 1900-1999
- 1973
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- Europe,
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cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
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Alexandria,
cEgypt,cNorth Africa, Africa,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,