Aboriginal literature is a growing field with a rapidly expanding global audience. The book
represents a range of writers; it includes highly acclaimed Aboriginal writers whose works …

Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as
did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a …

The current drought in Australia raises questions about the extent to which urban life
depends on physical forces that come with their own dynamics and eccentric rhythms. I …

Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession
with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come …

The decisive moment in the chase that structures Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence
(Miramax, 2001) involves a confusion between two rabbit-proof fences. The three girl …

Sappho was confident that someone would remember us despite the fact that women's
contributions, as now, were subject to erasure (Jarratt, 2002). As Kate Chedgzoy …

This article looks at the ideological ramifications of the narrative strategies that twentieth-
century Aboriginal prose texts use to negotiate indigenous Australian identities. The central …

This essay looks at historical, ethical and epistemological counter-discourses in Doris
Pilkington's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence and seeks to establish its ideological implications …

Cultural memory involves a community's shared memories, the selection of which is based
on current political and social needs. A past that is significant to a national group is re …

Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative is an exhaustive survey of Australian literature
proposing itself as a journey through time and space. With a careful selection of texts which …