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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
- Patrick White's Novel, A Fringe of Leaves, single work criticism (p. 157-175)
- A Universal Post-Colonial Myth? : Representations Beyond Australia, single work criticism (p. 176-202)
- And Now for the Movie : Popular Accounts, single work criticism (p. 203-227)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 175-188) 'Clare Archer-Lean focuses 'on the textual strategies of journey and impermanence. These can be understood through theoretical notions of trickster, a deliberately incoherent and slippery figure/story, alongside the symbolic ramification of water, representing movement and fluidity, to read Johnson's use of the journey motif. The journey motif in these works can be expanded to included the intra-textual journeys Johnson's writing carries out between its own past and present forms and how this self-referentiality constructs a challenge to the notion of a fixed and stable journal and record of any journey.' (175)
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Settler Post-Colonialism and Australian Literary Culture
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 28-40) 'This essay begins by mapping the place of settler postcolonialism in postcolonial studies, and its relevance to the Australian context. It then moves to demonstrate the applicability of settler postcolonial reading practices for Australian texts and contexts through two paradigmatic tropes: land and textuality.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010) -
Two Artistic Interpretations of the Eliza Fraser Exile Narrative
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe 2008; (p. 239-247) -
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The Chief Protector Returns : Textual Representations of A.O. Neville
Australia's Coloured Minority : Its Place in the Community
Tasmania
:
2007
14181244
2007
single work
thesis
'This thesis examines the different ways in which representations of A. O. Neville—Chief Protector of Aborigines / Commissioner of Native Affairs in Western Australia from 1915 to 1940—operate in a select group of texts. I argue that Neville is a highly charged synecdochic figure who stands in, discursively, for all white, bureaucratic administrators, in order to distil changing anxieties about Australia and its past. I examine key texts from Neville’s own writing to a range of more recent, fictional texts. I utilise a postcolonial approach in my analysis of the figure of Neville, through a reading of his continuing incarnations in Australian literature and culture. This project seeks to do with A.O. Neville what Kay Schaffer’s In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories did with Eliza Fraser.' (Publication abstract)
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Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2002; (p. 84-94) Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature 2002; (p. 84-94)
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Mrs Fraser and the Savage Within
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 19 July no. 4868 1996; (p. 24)
— Review of In the Wake of First Contact : The Eliza Fraser Stories 1995 single work criticism -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Oceania , December vol. 70 no. 2 1999; (p. 203-04)
— Review of In the Wake of First Contact : The Eliza Fraser Stories 1995 single work criticism -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 12 no. 1 1997; (p. 158-160)
— Review of In the Wake of First Contact : The Eliza Fraser Stories 1995 single work criticism -
Two Artistic Interpretations of the Eliza Fraser Exile Narrative
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe 2008; (p. 239-247) -
Settler Post-Colonialism and Australian Literary Culture
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 28-40) 'This essay begins by mapping the place of settler postcolonialism in postcolonial studies, and its relevance to the Australian context. It then moves to demonstrate the applicability of settler postcolonial reading practices for Australian texts and contexts through two paradigmatic tropes: land and textuality.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010) -
Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 175-188) 'Clare Archer-Lean focuses 'on the textual strategies of journey and impermanence. These can be understood through theoretical notions of trickster, a deliberately incoherent and slippery figure/story, alongside the symbolic ramification of water, representing movement and fluidity, to read Johnson's use of the journey motif. The journey motif in these works can be expanded to included the intra-textual journeys Johnson's writing carries out between its own past and present forms and how this self-referentiality constructs a challenge to the notion of a fixed and stable journal and record of any journey.' (175)
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Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2002; (p. 84-94) Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature 2002; (p. 84-94) -
y
The Chief Protector Returns : Textual Representations of A.O. Neville
Australia's Coloured Minority : Its Place in the Community
Tasmania
:
2007
14181244
2007
single work
thesis
'This thesis examines the different ways in which representations of A. O. Neville—Chief Protector of Aborigines / Commissioner of Native Affairs in Western Australia from 1915 to 1940—operate in a select group of texts. I argue that Neville is a highly charged synecdochic figure who stands in, discursively, for all white, bureaucratic administrators, in order to distil changing anxieties about Australia and its past. I examine key texts from Neville’s own writing to a range of more recent, fictional texts. I utilise a postcolonial approach in my analysis of the figure of Neville, through a reading of his continuing incarnations in Australian literature and culture. This project seeks to do with A.O. Neville what Kay Schaffer’s In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories did with Eliza Fraser.' (Publication abstract)