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This first biography of Xavier Herbert (1901-1984) explores the contradictions at the core of his turbulent life and career. It charts his lifelong quest to discover the reality of his existence and to forge a larger-than-life identity.
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Biopolitical Correspondences : Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 20-42) 'How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucalt called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation of a population according to the perceived insistence on norms. Indeed, biopolitics is crucially concerned with what is perceptible at the macroscopic level of an entire population - often rendering its operations blind to more singular, small, identitarian, or even communitarian representations and imaginaries. Unlike the diffuse, microscopic, governmental mechanisms of surveillance that identify the need for disciplinary interventions, biopolitics concerns itself with the regularisation of societies on a large scale, notably through demography. As Ann Laura Stoler has put it, Foucault's identification of these two forms of power, 'the disciplining of individual bodies...and the regularization of life processes of aggregate human populations' has led to much productive work in the postcolonialist critique of 'the discursive management of the sexual practices of the colonized', and the resultant 'colonial order of things' (4).' (Author's introduction, 20)
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Review of Xavier Herbert : A Biography
2000
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 66 2000; (p. 245-246)
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Islands of Fact, Oceans of Fiction
2000
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— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 6 2000; (p. 118-120)
— Review of Xavier Herbert : A Biography 1998 single work biography ; Xavier Herbert : Episodes from Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country and Other Fiction, Nonfiction and Letters 1992 selected work short story prose extract correspondence criticism interview biography -
Imagined Fact?
2000
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 19 no. 1 2000; (p. 70)
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The Portrait of a "Deeply Unlikable" Great Writer
1999
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— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 136)
— Review of Xavier Herbert : A Biography 1998 single work biography
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Review of Xavier Herbert : A Biography
1999
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 19 no. 2 1999; (p. 236-239)
— Review of Eleanor Dark : A Writer's Life 1998 single work biography ; Xavier Herbert : A Biography 1998 single work biography ; The Queen of Bohemia : The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer : Being "The Golden Decade" 1998 single work autobiography -
Australia Prolix?
1998
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1998-1999) no. 207 1998; (p. 14-15)
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Poor Fellow, My Biography
1998
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 November 1998; (p. 8)
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Saving Herbert from Oblivion
1998
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 November 1998; (p. 24)
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The Monster in the Tree House
1998
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 18 December no. 4994 1998; (p. 6)
— Review of Xavier Herbert : A Biography 1998 single work biography -
Biopolitical Correspondences : Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 20-42) 'How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucalt called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation of a population according to the perceived insistence on norms. Indeed, biopolitics is crucially concerned with what is perceptible at the macroscopic level of an entire population - often rendering its operations blind to more singular, small, identitarian, or even communitarian representations and imaginaries. Unlike the diffuse, microscopic, governmental mechanisms of surveillance that identify the need for disciplinary interventions, biopolitics concerns itself with the regularisation of societies on a large scale, notably through demography. As Ann Laura Stoler has put it, Foucault's identification of these two forms of power, 'the disciplining of individual bodies...and the regularization of life processes of aggregate human populations' has led to much productive work in the postcolonialist critique of 'the discursive management of the sexual practices of the colonized', and the resultant 'colonial order of things' (4).' (Author's introduction, 20)
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Subjects:
- Capricornia : A Novel 1938 single work novel
- Disturbing Element 1963 single work autobiography
- Larger Than Life : Twenty Short Stories 1963 selected work short story
- Poor Fellow My Country 1975 single work novel
- Seven Emus 1959 single work novel
- Soldiers' Women 1961 single work novel
- Childhood
- Family relationships
- Marriage
- Health & the human body
- Sexual relations
- Love
- Travel
- Self perception
- Literary career
- Pseudonyms
- Writer's craft
- Writer's inspiration
- Narrative techniques
- Australian identity
- Australian literature and writers
- Australian politics
- Republicanism
- Aboriginal Australians
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