The 'Literary Selfie' meets Literary Studies: Reading The Permanent Resident (2016) with Roanna Gonsalves and students of Writing Australia 2017 Queensland University of Technology

Authors

  • Penny Holliday

Keywords:

Indian-Goan Australian literature, Gonsalves,

Abstract

Abstract

This paper adds to the ongoing dialogue between the schools of creative writing and literary studies while exploring the relationship between reading and writing Australian literature through a case study of Roanna Gonsalves’ short story collection The Permanent Resident. Gonsalves’ collection writes back to dominant narratives around the Indian-Australian and Indian-Goan Australian diaspora within contemporary Australian society. It relates to four of the themes from this year’s conference, ASAL (Virtual) 2020 Reading and Writing Australian Literature. The themes are: teaching Australian writing, literary criticism, representing diversity and writing Australia. I argue The Permanent Resident is a collection worthy of a literary criticism class as well as a creative writing class as borne out by an interview conducted with the author by QUT Creative Writing and Literary Studies students via email.

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2022-07-09