National Library of Australia

1996

Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual conference 6-11 July 1996

Edited by Sharyn Pearce and Philip Neilsen, QUT

Table of Contents

Foreword PDF
 

Articles

Literary Subjectivity Abstract PDF
Simon During 1-12
King Kong and Kung Fu: Asian and American Images in Georgia Savage's Gold Coast Novels Abstract PDF
David Mesher 13-22
Someone Else's Zoo: Asian Australian Women's Writing Abstract PDF
Tseen Ling Khoo 23-29
Liars vs The New Diversity: Is there an Alternative to 'Postmodernist' Literary Studies? Abstract PDF
Cameron Richards 30-38
'Gold Out of Straw': An Introduction to the Life and Work of Amy Witting Abstract PDF
Yvonne Miels 39-49
Beyond the Verandah: Elizabeth Jolley's The Orchard Thieves and Drusilla Modjeska's The Orchard Abstract PDF
Tanya Dalziell 50-56
My Life as a Joke: Comic Australian Autobiography Abstract PDF
David McCooey 57-63
Telling Shameful Stories: Autobiography as Testimony Abstract PDF
Rosamund Dalziell 64-75
Mabel Forrest and the Witch Abstract PDF
Marie-Louise Ayres 76-84
The Fruit-Tree and the Veranda Abstract PDF
Carmel Gaffney 85-94
Rethinking Poetry and the Popular or How to Resuscitate and Immoral Piece of Poultry Abstract PDF
Peter Kirkpatrick 95-102
Between Two Deaths: The Love Poetry of Gwen Harwood Abstract PDF
Susan Schwarz 103-109
The Postcolonial Ghost Story Abstract PDF
Ken Gelder, Jane M Jacobs 110-120
'Delirious Monologues': Christina Stead's 'Egotistical Monsters' Abstract PDF
Maria Sloggett 121-128
She Casts Herself as Revolutionary: Performance and Performativity in The Man Who Loved Children Abstract PDF
Brigid Rooney 129-136
Babylon or Jerusalem?: An Inversion of terms Abstract PDF
Elisa Morera De la Vall 137-143
The Aboriginal Fiction Maker and the White Fiction Maker: The Variant Perceptual Cognitions Abstract PDF
S.K. Sareen 144-151
bony as Grotesque: The Dilemma of National Identity in Arthur Upfield's Bony Series, 1930-1950 Abstract PDF
Glen Ross 152-158
Sounding Out History: Landscape and Exploration in Recent Australian Fiction Abstract PDF
Gillain Tyas 159-163
An Un-Becoming Paradise: The Yandilli Trilogy Abstract PDF
Greg Ratcliffe 164-171
Good Writing: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fiction Abstract PDF
Patricia Kalnins 172-179
Collision Courses: Feminism, Postmodernism and The Monkey's Mask Abstract PDF
Margaret Henderson 180-188
A Rose Is A...:Maternal Debt in Ania Walwicz's Red Roses Abstract PDF
Alison Bartlett 189-195
Colour and Line to Word: The Writing of Janine Burke Abstract PDF
Roberta Buffi 196-203
The Search for Agency in the Fiction of Janette Turner Hospital Abstract PDF
Sue Lovell 204-213
Postmodernism, History and Satire: David Foster and Salman Rushdie Abstract PDF
Susan Lever 214-220
The Ethical Vision of Gerald Murnane Abstract PDF
Patrick West 221-227
The Milk of Mother's Kindness in Brian Castro's Drift Abstract PDF
Karen Barker 228-235
'A Mob of Bloody Women'--Utopia,Collectivity and Multiplicity in Some Recent Fiction by Australian Women Abstract PDF
Eleanor Hogan 236-242
Aussie Rules: Writing and Social Practice in a Regional Community Abstract PDF
Jen Webb 243-251
'Threatened People Don't Breed': The Maternal Strike in Australian Women's Writing 1920s to 1950 Abstract PDF
Nicole Moore 252-261
In Search of the Colonial 'Australian' Playwright Abstract PDF
Veronica Kelly 262-269