Eleanor Dark (1901–85) is one of Australia's most innovative 20th-century writers. Her
extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and …

Settler literature is haunted by the colonial past. Motifs found in the Australian literary
tradition signify this haunting-Aboriginal spectrality, uncanny Aboriginal ceremonial grounds …

This article focuses on a higher education pedagogy of reading the exemplary novel of
Indigenous Australia, Carpentaria (2006) by Waanyi author, Alexis Wright. The multiply …

This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim
Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that …

Abstract Queensland, Australia. Sun, surf, beaches, a barrier-reefed, tropical paradise.
Hmm. Try “the smell of blood in the waters” and “cut open” bellies filled with stones. Or the …

N 2008, FERVENT PUBLIC DEBATE FOLLOWED THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE NEW
national Australian Curriculum, then in early development, would mandate the study of …

The Timeless Land trilogy concludes as William Cox forges a road across the Blue
Mountains, finally breaking the" barrier" that has" circumscribed" the settlement's …

This chapter has seven sections: 1. Africa; 2. Australia; 3. Canada; 4. The Caribbean; 5. New
Zealand and Pacific; 6. South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka; and 7 …

The article explores contemporary debates regarding the representation of Indigenous
resistance in the field of settler colonial studies by putting the work of Australian theorist …

One of the major developments in literary studies of the past two decades is the resurgence
of interest in the discursive fields of both modernism and modernity. This chapter asks what …