1996

Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual conference 6-11 July 1996

Edited by Sharyn Pearce and Philip Neilsen, QUT.

Table of Contents

Preliminary pages

Foreword
Sharyn Pearce, Philip Neilsen
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Articles

Literary Subjectivity
Simon During
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1-12
King Kong and Kung Fu: Asian and American Images in Georgia Savage's Gold Coast Novels
David Mesher
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13-22
Someone Else's Zoo: Asian Australian Women's Writing
Tseen Ling Khoo
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23-29
Liars vs The New Diversity: Is there an Alternative to 'Postmodernist' Literary Studies?
Cameron Richards
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30-38
'Gold Out of Straw': An Introduction to the Life and Work of Amy Witting
Yvonne Miels
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39-49
Beyond the Verandah: Elizabeth Jolley's The Orchard Thieves and Drusilla Modjeska's The Orchard
Tanya Dalziell
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50-56
My Life as a Joke: Comic Australian Autobiography
David McCooey
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57-63
Telling Shameful Stories: Autobiography as Testimony
Rosamund Dalziell
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64-75
Mabel Forrest and the Witch
Marie-Louise Ayres
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76-84
The Fruit-Tree and the Veranda
Carmel Gaffney
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85-94
Rethinking Poetry and the Popular or How to Resuscitate and Immoral Piece of Poultry
Peter Kirkpatrick
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95-102
Between Two Deaths: The Love Poetry of Gwen Harwood
Susan Schwarz
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103-109
The Postcolonial Ghost Story
Ken Gelder, Jane M Jacobs
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110-120
'Delirious Monologues': Christina Stead's 'Egotistical Monsters'
Maria Sloggett
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121-128
She Casts Herself as Revolutionary: Performance and Performativity in The Man Who Loved Children
Brigid Rooney
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129-136
Babylon or Jerusalem?: An Inversion of terms
Elisa Morera De la Vall
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137-143
The Aboriginal Fiction Maker and the White Fiction Maker: The Variant Perceptual Cognitions
S.K. Sareen
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144-151
bony as Grotesque: The Dilemma of National Identity in Arthur Upfield's Bony Series, 1930-1950
Glen Ross
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152-158
Sounding Out History: Landscape and Exploration in Recent Australian Fiction
Gillain Tyas
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159-163
An Un-Becoming Paradise: The Yandilli Trilogy
Greg Ratcliffe
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164-171
Good Writing: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fiction
Patricia Kalnins
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172-179
Collision Courses: Feminism, Postmodernism and The Monkey's Mask
Margaret Henderson
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180-188
A Rose Is A...:Maternal Debt in Ania Walwicz's Red Roses
Alison Bartlett
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189-195
Colour and Line to Word: The Writing of Janine Burke
Roberta Buffi
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196-203
The Search for Agency in the Fiction of Janette Turner Hospital
Sue Lovell
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204-213
Postmodernism, History and Satire: David Foster and Salman Rushdie
Susan Lever
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214-220
The Ethical Vision of Gerald Murnane
Patrick West
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221-227
The Milk of Mother's Kindness in Brian Castro's Drift
Karen Barker
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228-235
'A Mob of Bloody Women'--Utopia,Collectivity and Multiplicity in Some Recent Fiction by Australian Women
Eleanor Hogan
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236-242
Aussie Rules: Writing and Social Practice in a Regional Community
Jen Webb
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243-251
'Threatened People Don't Breed': The Maternal Strike in Australian Women's Writing 1920s to 1950
Nicole Moore
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252-261
In Search of the Colonial 'Australian' Playwright
Veronica Kelly
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262-269