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1 “Gendered Gateways : Australian Surfing and the Construction of Masculinities in Tim Winton’s Breath” Sissy Helff , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Gateways and Walls : Under Construction 2016;
1 Transcultural Winton : Mnemonic Landscapes of Australia Sissy Helff , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tim Winton : Critical Essays 2014; (p. 221-240)

In this chapter, Sissy Helff seeks 'to show that Winton's rich mnemonic narrative landscapes in his novel Shallows and the short story collection The Turning imagine a multicultural Australia by applying diegetic modes of exchanging memories as well as using reciprocal interactions between the reader ant the texts...' Helff 'sets out to argue that approaching Winton's narratives with a focus on the exchange of memories and the generation of transcultural memories opens fresh avenues in reading and understanding the author's literary oeuvre in general and his envisaged narrative project in particulary'. (222, 223)
1 Patrick White-Lite : Fred Schepisi’s Filmic Adaptation of The Eye of the Storm Sissy Helff , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 181-195) ‘Fred Schepisi's film, The Eye of the Storm is set in the insular cultural landscape of Sydney's suburbs around Centennial Park of the 1970s. Just as in its literary source text, tempests erode textual, visual, temporal and societal facades. The film tells the life-story of the wealthy, but now frail and aged matriarch Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling). This mother has asked her two adult children, Basil Hunter (Geoffrey Rush) and 'Princess de Lascabanes' aka Dorothy (Judy Davis) to return from Europe in order to spend time by her bedside in these final days. This reunion highlights salient family tensions and arouses suppressed and unsettling memories.’ (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Unreliable Truths : Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of the Diaspora Sissy Helff , New York (City) Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2013 6352781 2013 single work criticism
1 Locating Indo-Australian Fiction in Multicultural Australia Sissy Helff , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 137-157)
1 Alice in Oz : A Children's Classic between Imperial Nostalgia and Transcultural Reinvention Sissy Helff , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commodifying (Post) Colonialism : Othering, Reification, Commodification and the New Literatures and Cultures in English 2010; (p. 77-91)
1 Sea of Transformation : Re-Writing Australianness in the Light of Whaling Sissy Helff , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Local Natures, Global Responsibilities : Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures 2010; (p. 91-104)
1 Multicultural Australia and Transcultural Unreliable Narration in Indian-Australian Literature Sissy Helff , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bernard Hickey, a Roving Cultural Ambassador : Essays in His Memory. 2009; (p. 135-147)
1 Children in Detention : Juvenile Authors Recollect Refugee Stories Sissy Helff , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 17 no. 2 2007; (p. 67-74) Helff notes the growing trend in children's fiction and autobiographical writing 'of stories about young people who are deprived of their homes and ambivalently caught between cultures' (67) She analyzes two short stories from the collection Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers aged 11-20 Years and argues that Dark Dreams 'invites readers to follow the juvenile writers to re-think and challenge the construction of Australian national identity, belonging and history' (67). She points out that 'storytellers, writers and readers participate in and contribute in a life-shaping act that includes the sharing of trauma and guilt' in ways that make it possible for new reflections upon the self in Australian history' (72). As such, she claims the project 'Australia IS refugees! and the short stories collected in Dark Dreams contribute to a critical egagement with Australian national identity, questions of belonging and Australian history making' (72).
1 Lost in 'Lantana' : Unreliable Narration and Troubled Masculinities Sissy Helff , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies , Spring-Fall vol. 12 no. 1-2 2006;
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