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Colleen McGloin Colleen McGloin i(A147860 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Review : Tim Winton : Critical Essays Colleen McGloin , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;
— Review of Tim Winton : Critical Essays 2014 anthology criticism
1 Australian Indigenous Short Films as a Pedagogical Device : Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk Colleen McGloin , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context 2014; (p. 131-142)
1 Reviving Eva in Tim Winton’s Breath Colleen McGloin , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Commonwealth Literature , March vol. 47.1 no. 2012; (p. 109-120) 'Breath by Tim Winton is an Australian surfing narrative. As a postcolonial novel, the novel's absence of indigenous representation and its portrayal of the central female character, Eva Sanderson, solicit a reading that attempts to make sense of the intersections between gender and race central to many such texts. In this paper, I explore the representation of Eva and provide a feminist reading of the novel that re-considers its racialized, gendered, and nationalist dimensions. It is Eva, I suggest, who provides the potential for reconfiguring white surfing masculinities, but whose over-determined masculinization and often misogynistic representation within the patriarchal logic that structures the work, hinder attempts to realize this potential. This attempt is further restricted by the text's erasure of indigenous people from the landscape.' (Author's abstract)
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