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Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia
Type of disability Mental illness. Type of character Primary. Point of view Unconfirmed.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Big Father is Watching You : A Postcolonial Reading of Peter Kocan's Total Institution Novellas
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 61-66) 'Born in 1947, Peter Kocan went down in the history of Australian fiction for having written a pair of companion novellas that are largely inspired from his experience as an inmate when he was incarcerated at Long Bay Correctional Center (Sydney) and then confined in Ward 6 for the Criminally Insane in Morrisset Psycological Hospital (New South Wales). When he turned 19, he attempted to shoot dead the then-leader of the Australian Labor Party Arthur Calwell with a sawn-off .22 rifle. At the time of the trial he was diagnosed as a borderline schizophrenic and condemned to life imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted to ten years of treatment that gave him and insiders knowledge of psychiatric institutions. Published after a time when asylum narratives were starting to make their mark in Australian fiction with novels such as David Ireland's The Flesheaters (1972) and Walter Adamson's The Institution (1976), The Treatment (1980) and its sequel The Cure (1983) chronicle Len Tarbutt's institutionalisation - a nineteen-year-old youngster confined in the maximum-security cell of a mental hospital to serve a life sentence. On another level, these two second-person semi-fictions can also be interpreted as a national allegory of Australian penal settlement, which explicates the ruler-ruled relationship through the establishment of a panoptic repressive system.' (Author's introduction)
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Emeritus Award for Peter Kocan
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Artery , no. 14 2010; (p. 16) -
非理性的光辉,疯癫中的诗意–对小说《治疗》和《痊愈》的福柯式解读
A Foucaltian Reading of Peter Kocan's The Treatment and The Cure
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Foreign Literature , vol. [2005] no. 2 2005; (p. 84-88) -
'Vox Populi?' The Image of Psychiatry in Australian Literature
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Left, Right or Centre? Psychiatry and the Status Quo 1990; (p. 1-25) -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 161)
— Review of The Cure 1983 single work novel ; The Treatment ; and, The Cure 1984 selected work novel
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[Review] The Bodysurfers
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Landfall , June vol. 39 no. 2 1985; (p. 213-223)
— Review of Fly Away Peter 1982 single work novella ; The Bodysurfers 1983 selected work short story ; An Item from the Late News 1982 single work novel ; The Cure 1983 single work novel ; White Stag of Exile 1984 single work novel ; The State of the Art : The Mood of Contemporary Australia in Short Stories 1983 anthology short story ; Kewpie Doll 1984 single work novel ; The Bellarmine Jug : A Novel 1984 single work novel ; Harland's Half Acre 1984 single work novel ; Woman in a Lampshade 1983 selected work short story ; Miss Peabody's Inheritance 1983 single work novel -
Bomb Nuts, Detectives and Prisoners
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Autumn-Winter no. 18/19 1984; (p. 40-44)
— Review of Woman in a Lampshade 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages 1983 selected work short story ; The Cure 1983 single work novel ; Headlocks & Other Stories 1983 selected work short story ; The Tournament 1983 single work novel ; The Hand That Feeds You : A Satiric Nightmare 1982 single work novel ; Stop Press 1982 single work novel ; Sister Kate : A Novel 1982 single work novel ; Were All Women Sex-Mad? And Other Stories 1982 selected work prose ; The Last Adventures of Christian Doom, Private I 1982 single work novel ; An Item from the Late News 1982 single work novel -
Disturbing and Memorable Novel
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 August 1983; (p. 16)
— Review of The Cure 1983 single work novel -
It Must Look Like Your True Feelings Coming Out
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 May 1983; (p. 38)
— Review of The Cure 1983 single work novel -
New Australian Novels
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Saturday Review , 8 October 1983; (p. 29)
— Review of The Cure 1983 single work novel -
Emeritus Award for Peter Kocan
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Artery , no. 14 2010; (p. 16) -
Big Father is Watching You : A Postcolonial Reading of Peter Kocan's Total Institution Novellas
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 61-66) 'Born in 1947, Peter Kocan went down in the history of Australian fiction for having written a pair of companion novellas that are largely inspired from his experience as an inmate when he was incarcerated at Long Bay Correctional Center (Sydney) and then confined in Ward 6 for the Criminally Insane in Morrisset Psycological Hospital (New South Wales). When he turned 19, he attempted to shoot dead the then-leader of the Australian Labor Party Arthur Calwell with a sawn-off .22 rifle. At the time of the trial he was diagnosed as a borderline schizophrenic and condemned to life imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted to ten years of treatment that gave him and insiders knowledge of psychiatric institutions. Published after a time when asylum narratives were starting to make their mark in Australian fiction with novels such as David Ireland's The Flesheaters (1972) and Walter Adamson's The Institution (1976), The Treatment (1980) and its sequel The Cure (1983) chronicle Len Tarbutt's institutionalisation - a nineteen-year-old youngster confined in the maximum-security cell of a mental hospital to serve a life sentence. On another level, these two second-person semi-fictions can also be interpreted as a national allegory of Australian penal settlement, which explicates the ruler-ruled relationship through the establishment of a panoptic repressive system.' (Author's introduction)
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'How Do You Feel Within Yourself?' : The Case of Peter Kocan
1988
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Psychopathology in Australian Life : Studies in Cultural Order and Disorder 1988; (p. 54-72) -
Poetic Justice Saves an 'Insider'
Tom Krause
(interviewer),
1983
single work
criticism
biography
interview
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 19-20 March 1983; (p. 12) -
'Vox Populi?' The Image of Psychiatry in Australian Literature
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Left, Right or Centre? Psychiatry and the Status Quo 1990; (p. 1-25)
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