AustLit logo

AustLit

Amanda Nettelbeck Amanda Nettelbeck i(A32360 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 3 y separately published work icon Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia's Frontier Wars History and Memory of South Australia's Frontier Wars Robert Foster , Amanda Nettelbeck , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2012 Z1883476 2012 single work non-fiction When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would be as much 'under the safeguard of the law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the privileges of British subjects'. But could colonial governments provide the protection that was promised? Out of the Silence explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that history in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten? And what might this reveal about our understanding of the nation's history and its legacies in the present? -- Cover description.
1 y separately published work icon Fatal Collisions : The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory Robert Foster , Amanda Nettelbeck , Rick Hosking , Wakefield Press , 2001 Z1574380 2001 single work non-fiction

'In 1849, James Brown, a south Australian pastoralist, was charged with shooting dead nine Aboriginal people. Unable to find witnesses, the crown was forced to drop the case even though the magistrate was convinced of his guilt. Two generations later, a glowing biography of Brown's life noted merely that he was involved in a charge of poisoning an Aboriginal man, but emerged from trial with a clean slate. Why had the story changed so much: from shooting to poisoning, from nine victims to one, from evading trial to being found innocent? What forces were at play in reshaping the memory of this event? 

'Fatal Collisions is about violence on the South Australian frontier and the ways in which it has been remembered in Anglo-Australian accounts of the past. The stories it tells take place in that fluid zone where history, memory and myth meet in popular consciousness.' (Publication summary)
1 The Making of Local Legend : Accounts of the South Australian Maria Massacre, 1840-1900 Amanda Nettelbeck , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 16 no. 1 2001; (p. 63-79)
1 South Australian Settler Memoirs Amanda Nettelbeck , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 68 2001; (p. 97-104; Notes: 233-235) This article looks at the ways in which settlers from the first wave of migration to South Australia constructed a sense of regional identity in the colony through the genre of memoir, and at the consequent process of mythologising a regional legend of foundation.
1 An Australian Girl: Introduction Amanda Nettelbeck , 1999 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: An Australian Girl 1999; (p. vii-xxxi) Argues that while it contains many of the ingredients of domestic romance fiction, An Australian Girl deviates from that genre both in the character of the heroine and in the novel's ending. Nettelbeck notes Catherine Martin's implicit acceptance of the conservative forces of history, but that she also challenges their limits, and has faith in a future of independence and equality..
1 Elizabeth Jolley's "The Well" and the Female Gothic Amanda Nettelbeck , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Extensions : Essays in English Studies from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls 1999; (p. 89-99)
1 Notes Towards an Introduction Amanda Nettelbeck , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Space Between : Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism 1998; (p. 1-17)
1 10 y separately published work icon The Space Between : Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism Heather Kerr (editor), Amanda Nettelbeck (editor), Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 1998 Z236975 1998 anthology short story criticism biography poetry prose
1 Presenting Aboriginal Women's Life Narratives Amanda Nettelbeck , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter no. 34 1997; (p. 43-56)
1 y separately published work icon Crossing Lines : Formations of Australian Culture : Proceedings of Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Adelaide, 1995 Caroline Guerin (editor), Philip Butterss (editor), Amanda Nettelbeck (editor), Adelaide : Association for the Study of Australian Literature , 1996 Z36573 1996 anthology criticism biography
1 Peter Carey Amanda Nettelbeck , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Southern Review , July vol. 28 no. 2 1995; (p. 259-260)
— Review of Dancing on Hot Macadam : Peter Carey's Fiction Anthony J. Hassall , 1994 single work criticism
1 Untitled Amanda Nettelbeck , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 40 no. 3 1995; (p. 92-94)
— Review of Night and Day Terri-Ann White , 1994 selected work short story
1 y separately published work icon Reading David Malouf Amanda Nettelbeck , South Melbourne : Sydney University Press/Oxford University Press , 1995 Z567308 1995 single work criticism
1 The Ambivalence of Women's Experience in Elizabeth Jolley's 'My Father's Moon' and 'Cabin Fever' Amanda Nettelbeck , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Constructing Gender : Feminism and Literary Studies 1994; (p. 242-252)
1 Expanding Boundaries : Changing Perceptions of 'Asia' in Two Australian Novels Amanda Nettelbeck , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 16 no. 2 1994; (p. 13-23)
1 2 y separately published work icon Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf Amanda Nettelbeck (editor), Nedlands : University of Western Australia. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature , 1994 Z397695 1994 anthology criticism
1 Rewriting an Explorer Mythology : The Narration of Space in David Malouf's Work Amanda Nettelbeck , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf 1994; (p. 101-115) From a Distance : Australian Writers and Cultural Displacement 1996; (p. 73-82)
1 Provisional Maps: Critical Essays on David Malouf : Introduction Amanda Nettelbeck , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf 1994; (p. i-ix)
1 Untitled Amanda Nettelbeck , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1993; (p. 152)
— Review of Wilder Shores : Women's Travel Stories of Australia and Beyond 1992 anthology short story prose
1 Farmer : Words and Worlds Amanda Nettelbeck , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1993; (p. 97-98)
— Review of The Seal Woman Beverley Farmer , 1992 single work novel
X