Tracking the Body: Dorothy Porter's Monkey's Mask

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  • Rose Lucas Monash University

Keywords:

Dorothy Porter, poetry, detective fiction, desire, lesbianism

Abstract

The paper argues that Porter's text transgresses categories of poetry/fiction and desire. Sexual difference and sexual desire are indistinguishable from the drive of the narrative to intensify and locate the body.

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1995: Crossing Lines: Formations of Australian Culture

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Tracking the Body: Dorothy Porter’s Monkey’s Mask. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 202-207. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/10231