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1 Bobbin Up as Social Reproduction Text Dougal McNeill , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 1 2020;

'Reading Dorothy Hewett's Bobbin Up (1959) with the tools provided by recent advances in social reproduction theory, this essay suggests that Hewett's text develops a richer and more sophisticated account of the relations between waged and unwaged labour than previous materialist critics have acknowledged. In turn, it reads Bobbin Up for the ways Hewett's fiction can provide insights for social reproduction theorists. Hewett's novel, this essay argues, builds a specifically social-reproduction poetics.' (Publication abstract)
1 Review of Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, Edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff Dougal McNeill , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 33 no. 3 2018;
— Review of Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature 2016 anthology criticism essay
1 [Review Essay] Exoticiizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction Dougal McNeill , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , December vol. 52 no. 5 2016; (p. 638-639) 'Is postcolonial studies becoming historical? The thrilling victories of the anti-colonial movement’s triumphant period are now all but gone from common living memory. From the French defeat in Algeria to Kwame Nkrumah’s early years in Ghana and Vietnam’s victory against the US in the American War, the post in the postcolonial is becoming a matter of the archive and public memory. If one phase of canonical postcolonial novels, including Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976), negotiated historical legacies through the problems of the Bildungsroman, more recent works, such as Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age (2007), draw on the resources of the historical novel tradition itself. Colonial history, meanwhile, all the way from Julian Fellowes’s Downton Abbey to the compulsive commemoration of World War One, enjoys lavish and ongoing treatment in the popular and literary fields.' (Publication abstract)
1 Migration, My Nation Dougal McNeill , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 216 2014; (p. 77-81) '‘Sheer vicious ingratitude’ – Malcolm Turnbull’s attack on artists boycotting the Biennale of Sydney used a register Overland ought to find encouraging, biting the hand that feeds being one of the tasks and responsibilities for engaged and engaging arts. The experience of art, as Alison Croggon wrote in Overland 212, is ‘lodged inescapably in the body, and it can’t be abstracted without violence’.' (Introduction)
1 'In Loneliness and Hardship and With Just a Touch of Pride' Dougal McNeill , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , January 2013;
— Review of Wild Card : An Autobiography, 1923-1958 Dorothy Hewett , 1990 single work autobiography
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