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'This keynote addresses the topic of "style" in Australian letters. It speculates that "Australian style" is very much a product of a melancholic personality, and that being "unhoused" is the modern condition of a writer's formation. The paper also goes on to explore how biography and autobiography are imaginatively interwoven to produce the uncanny in narrative; a puzzlement about the real which makes it difficult to live without writing. Proposing that there are three stages in the composition of a novel: lightning, agony and vertigo, it is suggested that there is an overlay of this pattern upon the trajectory of a writer's career, from early disturbances, through production of work, to late style.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon JASAL Country vol. 14 no. 3 2014 7916868 2014 periodical issue

    The BlackWords Symposium, held in October 2012, celebrated the fifth anniversary of the establishment of BlackWords, the AustLit-supported project recording information about, and research into, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. The symposium showcased the exciting state of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creative writing and storytelling across all forms, contemporary scholarship on Indigenous writing, alongside programs such as the State Library of Queensland’s black&write! project, which supports writers’ fellowships, editing mentorships, and a trainee editor program for professional development for Indigenous editors. But really, the event was a celebration of the sort of thinking, the sort of resistance, and the re-writing of history that is evident in the epigraph to this introduction. ' (Source: Kilner, Kerry and Minter, Peter, JASAL Vol 14. No. 3, 2014: 1)

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