AustLit logo

AustLit

Jacinta Van Den Berg Jacinta Van Den Berg i(A112300 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 The Metro Cricket Club Reunion Jacinta Van Den Berg , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: First Light : Clubs, Societies and Poetry 2012; (p. 27-29)
1 ‘Truth is Not the Seduction' : Brian Castro's Autobiographical Space Jacinta Van Den Berg , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 49 2010; (p. 1-18) 'In this paper I argue that the combination of fiction and essays across Castro's oeuvre may be read in terms of theorist of autobiography Philippe Lejeune's notion of an 'autobiographical space'. The repetitions and gaps of this space in Castro's writing sketch the life of an 'autobiographical persona', a phantasm of the author, who links the very different publications and is defined in relation to a present-absent mother figure, a character who otherwise plays little part in individual works. The reading practices used here privilege rewriting over individual works, style over substance. This is a hierarchy that deflects our scrutiny from truth claims to poetics and thus from the authorial persona, a significant result for the increasingly public Brian Castro. Identifying a coherent autobiographical persona allows us to acknowledge the emotional investment in autobiography in this writing without making claims on author biography.' (p. 2)
1 Brian Castro's Fiction : The Seductive Play of Language by Bernadette Brennan Jacinta Van Den Berg , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;
— Review of Brian Castro's Fiction : The Seductive Play of Language Bernadette Brennan , 2008 multi chapter work criticism
1 Interview With Brian Castro Jacinta Van Den Berg (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 1 2009; (p. 127-139)
1 'Are you weaker than a woman, weaker even than a mother?' : Abjection and Infanticide in Dead Europe and Drift Jacinta Van Den Berg , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 23 no. 2 2007; (p. 230-244)
X