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1 Australian Mountains: Myth and Reality, Devastation and Regeneration Colette Selles , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World 2010; (p. 646-660)
1 David Malouf's Haunted Writing Colette Selles , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Ghosts 2010; (p. 269-285) 'The two novels this paper focuses on, Remembering Babylon and The Conversations at Curlow Creek, testify to David Malouf's ongoing 'dialogue with Australia'. Published in 1993 and 1996, two centuries after the arrival of the First Fleet of convicts, they engage with crucial issues in a postcolonial Australia which still has to negotiate its existential uncertainty. By returning to the first half of the nineteenth century, the narratives face the ghosts of the past which have haunted Australia, notably the stain of its origins as a penal colony: a sense of exile to the edge of the world is combined with the legacy of historical wrongs, the atrocities of the convict system and the devastating impact of colonization on the Aboriginal peoples - from dispossession to massacre or assimilationist policies which have engendered social alienation and spiritual dislocation.' (p. 270)
1 Benang by Kim Scott : From Divergence to Convergence? Colette Selles , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Anglophonia / Caliban , no. 21 2007; (p. 147-158)
1 Variations on 'The Drover's Wife' : A Textual, Contextual, Extra Textual Interplay Colette Selles , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 28 no. 1 2005; (p. 77-90)
2 Heritage in Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs' Colette Selles , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 27 no. 1 2004; (p. 63-75)
— Appears in: Dickens Adapted 2012; (p. 447-459) Author's abstract: Rewriting Dickens's Great Expectations through Jack Maggs, Carey revisits the English literary heritage and the values of nineteenth-century England. This paper examines how Carey reconsiders that tradition and, from his postcolonial position, questions Britain's cultural and social heritage to present Australia as a new haven offering redemption and regeneration, the possibility of overcoming the haunting heritage of one's origins and past, which allegorically refers to the former colony itself (63).
1 Frank Moorhouse and the 'Oscillation' between Biography, Autobiography and Fiction : Reconciling Contradictions Colette Selles , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 24 no. 1 2001; (p. 53-60)
1 1 Language and Secondarity in Murray Bail's 'Holden's Performance' Colette Selles , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 20 no. 1 1997; (p. 77-85)
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