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1 Rev. of Anne Brewster and Sue Kossew, Rethinking the Victim : Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing Barbara Arizti Martin , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 11 no. 2 2020;

— Review of Rethinking the Victim : Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing Anne Brewster , Sue Kossew , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
1 Tim Winton’s Palimpsestuous Australianness in Island Home : A Landscape Memoir Barbara Arizti Martin , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 9 no. 2 2018;

'Taking as a starting point the metaphor of the palimpsest, this essay explores Winton’s sense of being Australian in his 2015 landscape memoir Island Home. Sarah Dillon’s distinction between the palimpsestic and the palimpsestuous, which draws on Foucault’s own differentiation between the workings of archaeology and genealogy respectively, provides the wider frame. A palimpsestic reading of Island Home along the lines of Abraham and Torok’s reflections on mourning and loss, more specifically their theory of the psychic crypt, throws light on Winton’s “inexpressible mourning” (Abraham and Torok 130) for the loss of an unshaken pre-apology Australianness. Complementarily, a palimpsestuous approach to the text evinces the emergence, among the traces of white nationalism, of a new pattern in Winton’s latest additions to his palimpsest of a nation in Island Home. Read horizontally rather than vertically, Winton’s book reveals an interest in what he calls “an emotional deepening” (168), a new sense of relatedness that acknowledges the damage done to the Indigenous population at the same time that it honours the contribution of the rightful inhabitants of Australia to the current national narrative, creating, in this way, possible openings for non-Indigenous belonging.'

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1 New Possibilities of Neighbouring Barbara Arizti Martin , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 10 2013;
'I intend to revisit Winton's popular family saga in the light of Emmanuel Levinas's ethics of alterity and Kenneth Reinhard's political theology, both built upon the Christian principle of loving thy neighbour. The story of two families, the Pickles and the Lambs, sharing house in post-World War II Perth, proves fertile ground for the analysis of the encounter with the Face of the Other, the founding principle of Levinasian philosophy. In his political theology of the neighbour, which aims at breaking the traditional dichotomy friend/enemy, Reinhard draws on Badiou's conception of love as a truth procedure, capable of creating universality in a particular place. Thus, the vicissitudes of the two families in coming to terms with each other in their "great continent of a house" invite a metaphorical reading and echo Winton's interest in promoting a sense of community in Australia.' (Author's abstract)
1 Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton's Dirt Music Barbara Arizti Martin , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Splintered Glass : Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond 2011; (p. 175-189)
Barbara Arizti looks at the way aspects of trauma are represented in Tim Winton's Dirty Music .
1 Never Give up Hope : A Levinasian Reading of Janette Turner Hospital's 'Dear Amnesty' Barbara Arizti Martin , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 31 no. 2 2009; (p. 147-160)
A double click on the 'Take Action' button opens up several ways of collaborating with Amnesty International that include the classic letter writing to authorities, joining a local group, leaving a gift in your will and throwing a fundraising party, amongst others. The degree of commitment shown by Sarah, a member of the Urgent Action Network in Janette Turner Hospital's short story 'Dear Amnesty', acquire hyperbolic tinges when whe manages to save Rosita - arrested and tortured for requesting better work conditions - by draining off her pain into her own body. This article engages with Turner Hospital's short story as an extreme example of the main tenet of Levinas's ethics of alterity: our infinite responsibility for our neighbours. Like Amnesty International, Levinas's ethical philosophy envisages a messianic time free from political violence. Sarah's radical openness to the other can also be analysed in the light of Gibson's ethics of affect. Inspired by Levinas and his other-centred philosophy, Gibson elaborates an ethics that priviledges sensibility, vulnerability, generosity and self-expenditure over and above self-interest and restraint. [Author's abstract]
1 Fathercare in Tim Winton's Fiction Barbara Arizti Martin , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies , Spring-Fall vol. 12 no. 1-2 2006;
1 The Crisis of Masculinity in Tim Winton's The Riders Barbara Arizti Martin , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Spring vol. 24 no. 2 2002; (p. 29-45)
Author's abstract: Tim Winton's work is often populated by strong females and weak males. In his novel The Riders, the author explores the subject of masculine anxiety over the current transformation of gender roles. The protagonist's trip to Europe is an occasion for a journey of self-discovery that leads him to reconsider his relationship with his wife and daughter and his general attitude to life.
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