National Library of Australia

1997

Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

held at the University of New England, Armidale, 27-30 September 1997, edited by Jennifer McDonell and Michael Deves

Table of Contents

Foreword PDF
 

Articles

Keynote Address: A Haunted Country? Abstract PDF
Tom Griffiths 1-12
Tropes of Dispossession: The Political Unconscious of 'The Land Question' in Colonial Australian Satire Abstract PDF
Nancy Wright, Andrew Buck 13-18
Francis Adams's Construction of the 'real Australia' in The Australians Abstract PDF
Meg Tasker 19-24
Legibility and Little Bourke Street in Cassell's Picturesque Australasia Abstract PDF
Tony Hughes D'Aeth 25-30
'To the Island': Myths of Identity and Belonging in Andrew McGahan's 1988 Abstract PDF
Vivienne Muller 31-36
Writing Women: Gender, Identity and Representation in Coonardoo and A Kindness Cup Abstract PDF
Sue Kossew 37-43
Alice Nannup's 'Homes': Cultural Identification and Land in When the Pelican Laughed Abstract PDF
Linda Westphalen 44-47
May Gibbs's Suburban Space Abstract PDF
Laurie Duggan 48-51
Monotony and the Picturesque: Landscape in Three Australian Travel Narratives of the 1830s Abstract PDF
Paul Miller 52-57
'A Kind of Aladdin Cave': Women, Space and Text in the Western Australian Novels of E. L. Grant Watson Abstract PDF
Angeline O'Neill 58-63
Rewriting the Landscape: Judith Wright's Fragile Land and Haunted Self Abstract PDF
Sandra Brunet 64-69
Gendered Spaces: The Frontier in Rod Jones's Billy Sunday Abstract PDF
Elizabeth Bullen 70-75
Ordering Chaos: Nature and Identity Formation Abstract PDF
Richard Rossiter 76-80
A.D. Hope: Nomad of the Mind, Land and Space Abstract PDF
Ann McCulloch 81-87
'Dead dogs, stones and dust': the Fall from an Urban pastoral in Brennan's Curriculum Vitae Abstract PDF
Justin Lucas 88-93
Nomadology in Kylie Tennant's The Battlers Abstract PDF
Karen Attard 94-98
Becoming-Violet: Mary Fullerton's Poetry and Lesbian Desire Abstract PDF
Sylvia Martin 99-104
Strange Bedfellows: Homo-eroticism and Landscape in Two Bush Novels from the 1920s Abstract PDF
Tim Suttor 105-109
Making Space: Identity and Place in Western Australian 'Lesbian/Gay' Writing Abstract PDF
Rob Cover 110-116
Voicing the Land - 1 Abstract PDF
Ruby Langford Ginibi 117-120
Voicing the Land - 2 Abstract PDF
Eric Rolls 121-125
Historicising the Metaphor of Mother Earth Abstract PDF
Lyn McCredden 126-130
Gungahlin on a Plate - Stories of Land and Identity in a New Suburb Abstract PDF
Mary Hutchison 131-137
Latrobe Valley: Negative Charges Abstract PDF
Mary Griffiths 138-141
A Space In-between: Red Rock Abstract PDF
Margaret Somerville, Laura Hartley 142-148
Captivating Fictions Abstract PDF
Susan K. Martin 149-154
Nitmiluk: An Aboriginal Rock Song about a Place Abstract PDF
Peter Dunbar-Hall 155-160
'Nitmiluk': Song-sites and Strategies for Aboriginal Empowerment Abstract PDF
Chris Gibson 161-167
'Some mystical affinity': E. L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert Abstract PDF
Roslynn Haynes 169-173
Land and Identity in Barbara Hanrahan's Writing Abstract PDF
Elaine Lindsay 174-178
Exploring Tracks: Writing and Living Desert Space Abstract PDF
Christy Collis 179-184
Music, Poetry and the Natural Environment Abstract PDF
Bruce Clunies Ross 185-190
Conversations with the Land: Environmental Questions and Eleanor Dark Abstract PDF
Susan Carson 191-196
The Gendered Literary Landscapes of Elizabeth Jolley Abstract PDF
Fionnuala Neville 197-201
Bronzed Aussie: The Memorialisation of Henry Lawson Abstract PDF
Chris Lee 202-208
The Road to Babi Yar: Anti-historicism in Recent Australian Fiction Abstract PDF
Trevor Byrne 209-215
Dwelling Within: Identity and Home in Contemporary Australian Autobiography Abstract PDF
Tim Bowers 216-219
Brian Castro: Hybridity, Identity and Reality Abstract PDF
Michael Deves 220-225
Place and Masculinity in the Anzac Legend Abstract PDF
Brian Dwyer 226-231
'In a season without languages': Translative Process in the Poetry of Ouyang Yu, Vasso Kalamaras, Ania Walwicz and Antigone Kefala Abstract PDF
Anne Collett 232-238
Michael Dransfield on the New England Highway Abstract PDF
Felicity Plunkett 239-242
Bruce Dawe: Language, Self and Place Abstract PDF
Dennis Haskell 243-249