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Notes
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Dedication: To Hilda and the memory of Maurice.
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Includes bibliography.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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“The Whole Island Is a Jail and We the Warders” : States of Exception in Tasmanian Historical Fiction
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth : Essays and Studies , Autumn vol. 42 no. 1 2019;'Looking at two historical romances by women writers, Kathleen Graves’ Exile: A Tale of Old Tasmania (1945) and Isabel Dick’s Wild Orchard (1946), this article seeks to examine narratives of an early nineteenth-century Van Diemen’s Land that are apparently at odds with the 1940s Tasmania it was to become. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception” as the theoretical underpinnings for this essay, I read both the nineteenth- and twentieth-century island as a site for the proliferation of bare life whereby the whole of society finds itself defined by its prison-like capacity to strip individuals of their right to life. In telling these stories in which not all lives are equal, it seems that Dick and Graves are attempting to situate their narratives firmly in the past where they cannot contaminate the present, and indeed, future of their island.' (Publication abstract)
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Kathleen Graves (1901-1974)
Margaret Giordano
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Don Norman
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1984
single work
biography
— Appears in: Tasmanian Literary Landmarks 1984; (p. 147-152) -
Fiction and Formula
1947
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 November vol. 68 no. 3536 1947; (p. 2)
— Review of Exile : A Tale of Old Tasmania 1947 single work novel
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Fiction and Formula
1947
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 November vol. 68 no. 3536 1947; (p. 2)
— Review of Exile : A Tale of Old Tasmania 1947 single work novel -
Kathleen Graves (1901-1974)
Margaret Giordano
,
Don Norman
,
1984
single work
biography
— Appears in: Tasmanian Literary Landmarks 1984; (p. 147-152) -
“The Whole Island Is a Jail and We the Warders” : States of Exception in Tasmanian Historical Fiction
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth : Essays and Studies , Autumn vol. 42 no. 1 2019;'Looking at two historical romances by women writers, Kathleen Graves’ Exile: A Tale of Old Tasmania (1945) and Isabel Dick’s Wild Orchard (1946), this article seeks to examine narratives of an early nineteenth-century Van Diemen’s Land that are apparently at odds with the 1940s Tasmania it was to become. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception” as the theoretical underpinnings for this essay, I read both the nineteenth- and twentieth-century island as a site for the proliferation of bare life whereby the whole of society finds itself defined by its prison-like capacity to strip individuals of their right to life. In telling these stories in which not all lives are equal, it seems that Dick and Graves are attempting to situate their narratives firmly in the past where they cannot contaminate the present, and indeed, future of their island.' (Publication abstract)
- 1820s