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Leaving the Party : Dorothy Hewett, Literary Politics and the Long 1960s
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 1 2012; (p. 36-50)'What political, cultural and rhetorical changes occurred between the publication of Dorothy Hewett's nostalgic essay on Kylie Tenant in Westerly in late 1960 (Hewett, "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains") and her strikingly negative literary obituary of Katherine Susannah Prichard in Overland in late 1969 (Hewett, "Excess of Love: The Irrecon - cilable in Katharine Susannah Prichard")? The first of these essays offered a forthright series of criticisms about Tenant's interest in stylistic experimentation and the decline of her rather more interesting socialist realism. The second essay delivered an equally forthright assessment of Prichard, Hewett's much-loved fellow West Australian woman writer and Communist, strongly condemning her deforming and persistent allegiance to the Communist Party in Australia and the Soviet Union and the socialist realist aesthetics mandated by them. Separated by only nine years, these two pieces of non-fiction present the contradictory literary and political positions that book-end Hewett's turbulent and productive Cold War 1960s, and indicate the nature and importance of the repudiation of Prichard as a springboard for Hewett's writing in the 1970s. Approached chronologically, Hewett's essays of the 1960s demonstrate the imbrication of politics and literary aesthetics in her work. Initially reproducing the partisan contours of the relationship between politics and literature familiar from the Left cultural debates of the 1930s, Hewett finds increasingly different answers for this debate's foundational questions about the function of art, the role of the socially engaged artist, the importance of realism and what to do or think about modernism.' (Author's abstract)
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The Apprentice Years II
1993
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: A Gallop of Fire : Katharine Susannah Prichard: on Guard for Humanity : a Study of Creative Personality 1993; (p. 42-50) -
Psychology of Espionage
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 April 1991; (p. 23) -
The Writer as Activist
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian , June 1988; Social Alternatives , January vol. 7 no. 4 1989; (p. 56-59) Born of the Conquerors : Selected Essays 1991; (p. 127-133) -
Australian Autobiography
1964
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 24 no. 3 1964; (p. 206-207)
— Review of Child of the Hurricane : An Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography
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Child of the Hurricane
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: Realist Writer , November no. 13 1963; (p. 17-18)
— Review of Child of the Hurricane : An Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
Three Autobiographies
1964
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 29 1964; (p. 60)
— Review of The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography ; Child of the Hurricane : An Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography ; Disturbing Element 1963 single work autobiography -
Newcomers
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 November vol. 85 no. 4369 1963; (p. 45-47)
— Review of Hopeton High : A Novel 1963 single work novel ; Child of the Hurricane : An Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
Untitled
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation , 14 December 1963; (p. 20)
— Review of Ma and Pa : My Childhood Memories 1963 single work biography ; Child of the Hurricane : An Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
Autobiographical
1964
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 23 no. 4 1964; (p. 443-445)
— Review of Disturbing Element 1963 single work autobiography ; Blizzard and Fire : A Year at Mawson, Antarctica 1963 single work autobiography ; The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography ; Child of the Hurricane : An Autobiography 1963 single work autobiography -
Leaving the Party : Dorothy Hewett, Literary Politics and the Long 1960s
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 1 2012; (p. 36-50)'What political, cultural and rhetorical changes occurred between the publication of Dorothy Hewett's nostalgic essay on Kylie Tenant in Westerly in late 1960 (Hewett, "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains") and her strikingly negative literary obituary of Katherine Susannah Prichard in Overland in late 1969 (Hewett, "Excess of Love: The Irrecon - cilable in Katharine Susannah Prichard")? The first of these essays offered a forthright series of criticisms about Tenant's interest in stylistic experimentation and the decline of her rather more interesting socialist realism. The second essay delivered an equally forthright assessment of Prichard, Hewett's much-loved fellow West Australian woman writer and Communist, strongly condemning her deforming and persistent allegiance to the Communist Party in Australia and the Soviet Union and the socialist realist aesthetics mandated by them. Separated by only nine years, these two pieces of non-fiction present the contradictory literary and political positions that book-end Hewett's turbulent and productive Cold War 1960s, and indicate the nature and importance of the repudiation of Prichard as a springboard for Hewett's writing in the 1970s. Approached chronologically, Hewett's essays of the 1960s demonstrate the imbrication of politics and literary aesthetics in her work. Initially reproducing the partisan contours of the relationship between politics and literature familiar from the Left cultural debates of the 1930s, Hewett finds increasingly different answers for this debate's foundational questions about the function of art, the role of the socially engaged artist, the importance of realism and what to do or think about modernism.' (Author's abstract)
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Lost Girlhoods
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Nation , 14 December 1963; (p. 20) -
Psychology of Espionage
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 April 1991; (p. 23) -
The Writer as Activist
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian , June 1988; Social Alternatives , January vol. 7 no. 4 1989; (p. 56-59) Born of the Conquerors : Selected Essays 1991; (p. 127-133) -
The Apprentice Years II
1993
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: A Gallop of Fire : Katharine Susannah Prichard: on Guard for Humanity : a Study of Creative Personality 1993; (p. 42-50)