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Dedication: For my sister and all the cousins
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Works about this Work
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Autobiography of a Sickness
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 68 no. 1 2023; (p. 128-139) 'A disclosure: before being asked to do this lecture, I had never read a word of Stow. When I was nineteen, I left Western Australia to study in Singapore. When I graduated, I stayed. If leaving was an intentional turning away from a cultural lineage, or canon, then staying was a decisive choice towards another. Reading, after all, is political—more political, perhaps, than writing itself. Later, when I did return, and began to write, it was the Queer Singaporean and Singapore-based writers and artists I had encountered who formed my creative ancestry and who I felt I might exist in conversation with, if I were to exist in this space at all. But any residence forms lineages, and in returning to live on this land—where I hold legal citizenship, enforced by the world's dependence on borders and the nation-state, and where I was born—authorial ancestries are free to entangle, be speculated over and perhaps even transformed.' (Introduction)
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Writing an Australian Farm Novel : Connecting Regions Via Magic Realism
2022
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 2 2022; 'Contemporary farming often involves more machines, access to information, and public pressure to protect or regenerate non-human nature than in the past. However, this is scarcely reflected in the farm novel, which is largely bound to an historical era. Australian farm novels include Benjamin Cozens’ Princess of the Mallee (1903), John Naish’s The Cruel Field (1962), Randolph Stow’s The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea (1965), and Carrie Tiffany’s Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (2005). Each feature realism and pre-1960s settings. In this article, I propose a major revision of the farm novel by employing magic realism to challenge Australia’s realist representations of farming as a rational, money-making enterprise. Magic realism allows me to position Australia’s dominant profit-driven approach to agriculture as fantasy and hopefully to stimulate new notions of farming and the farmer. By casting sugarcane and machines as a colonial farming alliance and humans as their marginalized subjects, I draw attention to a gradual depopulation of rural lands, subvert a persistent anthropocentric element of the settler-colonial ideology, and challenge notions of humans controlling the farm. This article is also a case study in a performance of John Kinsella’s international regionalism (He, 2021; Kinsella, 2001), in which Australia’s Wet Tropics connects with creative writing discourse.' (Publication abstract) -
A Short History of the Ocean
2022
single work
prose
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 67 no. 1 2022; (p. 192-195) -
Not Given, but Taken
2022
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 67 no. 1 2022; (p. 183-191) 'On the topic of both Randolph Stow and the ocean, I felt myself in the intertidal zone, equipped to tackle neither the vast, unsteady subject of the sea, nor the firmer ground of Stow-the-author.' (Introduction) -
Machine in the Water : Oceanic Pastoral in The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Randolph Stow : Critical Essays 2021;
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My Books My Story
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 16 February 2008; (p. 30)
— Review of The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 1965 single work novel ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony : Comprising Australia Felix, The Way Home, Ultima Thule 1930 selected work novel -
Local Classics
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 12 September 2009; (p. 12)
— Review of Cloudstreet 1991 single work novel ; Sixty Lights 2004 single work novel ; Gilgamesh : A Novel 2001 single work novel ; The Shark Net : Memories and Murder 2000 single work autobiography ; A Fortunate Life 1980 single work autobiography ; The Well 1986 single work novel ; The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 1965 single work novel -
[Review] The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: The Spectator , 31 December 1965; (p. 869)
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[Review] The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 18 December 1965; (p. 22)
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[Review] The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: New Statesman , 22 October 1965; (p. 613)
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'The Country We Might Have Been' : The Experience of War in Canadian and Australian Literature
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Crabtracks : Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English : Essays in Honour of Dieter Riemenschneider 2002; (p. 283-304) -
Children's National Notes : India and Australia in Mena Abdullah's The Time of the Peacock and Stow's The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Austral-Asian Encounters : From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism 2003; (p. 196-203) -
Mates, Mum and Maui : The Theme of Maturity in Three Antipodean Novels
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Readings in Pacific Literature 1993; (p. 173-189) -
The Australian Home-Front Novel of the Second World War: Genre, Gender and Region
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 23 no. 1 2007; (p. 79-91) -
A Beach Somewhere : The Australian Littoral Imagination at Play
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 31-44) A remarkable array of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Australian novelists and short story writers have presented images of West Australian beaches and coastlines. These authors include Robert Drewe, Jack Davis, Randolph Stow, Peter Cowan, Dorothy Hewett, and Tim Winton. Their human dramas have a peculiar poignancy when played out against the natural elements of these Western coasts. Sexual, emotional, or spiritual crises occur in maritime settings that both enhance their memorability and reveal humanity's fragile hold on the continent. (abstract taken from The Littoral Zone)
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Subjects:
- Geraldton, Geraldton area, Dongara - Geraldton - Northampton area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
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cJapan,cEast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
- 1940s
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