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'Ruth Joiner's short life has not run smoothly: opportunities have fallen through the cracks at every turn. The exception is creating her daughter, Dewi, and when we meet these two at the end of Ruth's life it is Ruth's calm demeanour and care that makes us confident that Dewi's future will be happier and carry more opportunity and joy. Orphaned in Bali and raised by her adoptive parents in the Australian desert, as a young woman Ruth escaped to the small town of Lost River. Her life has been marked by hardship, heartbreak, and loss, and defined by racism, illness, and her relationships with an enigmatic man named David and her young daughter Dewi. Yet against all odds, she ultimately finds peace with her family, her past, and herself. Set in Western Australia, Lost River: Four Albums is a novella of dislocation and loss, and continues Simone Lazaroo's interest in connections between Australian and South-East Asian lives.' (Publication abstract)
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The Lost River: Four Albums by Simone Lazaroo
2104
2104
single work
review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
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The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction
Oxford
:
Peter Lang
,
2017
13852561
2017
multi chapter work
criticism
'This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo judgement – which recognised indigenous Australians’ customary native title to land – challenged previous ways of thinking about land and space, settlement and belonging, race and relationships, and nation and history, both historically and contemporaneously. While Mabo’s impact on history, law, politics and film has been the focus of scholarly attention, the study of its influence on literature has been sporadic and largely limited to examinations of non-Aboriginal novels.
'Now, a quarter of a century after Mabo, this book takes a closer look at nineteen contemporary novels – including works by David Malouf, Alex Miller, Kate Grenville, Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Michelle de Kretser, Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright and Kim Scott – in order to define and describe Australia’s literary imaginary as it reflects and articulates post-Mabo discourse today. Indeed, literature’s substantial engagement with Mabo’s cultural legacy – the acknowledgement of indigenous people’s presence in the land, in history, and in public affairs, as opposed to their absence – demands a re-writing of literary history to account for a “Mabo turn” in Australian fiction. ' (Publication summary)
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Review of Lost River : Four Albums by Simone Lazaroo
2014
single work
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 7 no. 1 2014;
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
A Lonely Life Endured
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 September 2014; (p. 26)
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
Courage in the Face of Adversity
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 22 July 2014; (p. 6)
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel
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The Lost River: Four Albums by Simone Lazaroo
2104
2104
single work
review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
Light in the Darkness
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 July 2014; (p. 33)
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
Fiction
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 July 2014; (p. 7)
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
Courage in the Face of Adversity
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 22 July 2014; (p. 6)
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
A Lonely Life Endured
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 September 2014; (p. 26)
— Review of Lost River : Four Albums 2014 single work novel -
y
The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction
Oxford
:
Peter Lang
,
2017
13852561
2017
multi chapter work
criticism
'This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo judgement – which recognised indigenous Australians’ customary native title to land – challenged previous ways of thinking about land and space, settlement and belonging, race and relationships, and nation and history, both historically and contemporaneously. While Mabo’s impact on history, law, politics and film has been the focus of scholarly attention, the study of its influence on literature has been sporadic and largely limited to examinations of non-Aboriginal novels.
'Now, a quarter of a century after Mabo, this book takes a closer look at nineteen contemporary novels – including works by David Malouf, Alex Miller, Kate Grenville, Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Michelle de Kretser, Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright and Kim Scott – in order to define and describe Australia’s literary imaginary as it reflects and articulates post-Mabo discourse today. Indeed, literature’s substantial engagement with Mabo’s cultural legacy – the acknowledgement of indigenous people’s presence in the land, in history, and in public affairs, as opposed to their absence – demands a re-writing of literary history to account for a “Mabo turn” in Australian fiction. ' (Publication summary)