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1 Developing a Connective Feminine Discourse : Drusilla Modjeska on Women’s Lives, Love and Art Ulla Rahbek , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 16 2015; (p. 101-111) 'This paper discusses the work of the Australian writer and historian Drusilla Modjeska through a focus on the intersections between women‟s lives, love and art, which constitute the central triptych of Modjeska‟s writing. It argues that Modjeska‟s oeuvre unfolds a connective feminine discourse through a development of what the paper calls hinging tropes, discursive connectors that join life, love and art, such as weaving, folding and talking. That connective feminine discourse is indeed central to Modjeska‟s personal and sometimes idiosyncratic feminism.' (Publication summary)
1 Mythologizing Food : Marion Halligan’s Non-Fiction Ulla Rahbek , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 5 2011; This paper discusses Marion Halligan's non-fiction, particularly her writing on food: Those Women who go to Hotels, Eat my Words, Cockles of the Heart, Out of the Picture, and The Taste of Memory. The focus is on how Halligan deconstructs and reconstruct a mythology of food, in a Barthesian sense, revealing the contradictions at the heart of food mythology. The texts lay bare Halligan's own personal and at times idiosyncratic mythology of food, where food is much more that just that. Venturing into areas of autobiography, memory, travel, place and gardens, this paper discusses how Halligan's mythologizing of food doubles up, especially in her most recent food writing, as a rethinking and celebration of suburbia, which is figured as a site where nature and culture meet, and where paradise can be regained.
1 Revisiting Dot and the Kangaroo: Finding a Way in the Australian Bush Ulla Rahbek , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , February no. 41 2007; Rahbek suggests that, rather than being a tale of being lost in the bush, Dot and the Kangaroo is in a fact a story of being found. 'It is the indigenous creature who can show Dot how to find the true values of the Australian land and its bush creatures ... Dot learns, this paper argues, the importance of security and a sense of place from these animals, a security they themselves have lost in the wake of the European settlers' arrival.'
1 Untitled Ulla Rahbek , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: API Review of Books , April no. 42 2006;
— Review of Babes in the Bush : The Making of an Australian Image Kim Torney , 2005 single work criticism
1 Projecting Australia to Children : Marion Halligan's The Midewife's Daughters Ulla Rahbek , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 20 no. 1&2 2005; (p. 255-264) "This paper discusses Marion Halligan's children's book The Midwife's Daughters. It focuses on how the daughters embody all that is best of Australia as it is projected to children in this short text: cleanliness, health, strength, freedom and liberty. The daughters are read as descendants of Louisa Lawson's bush-girls, whom she called a race of splendid women. It concludes by drawing attention to what the paper calls maidship, as a valuable alternative to the dominant idea of mateship." (255)
1 The Monstrosity of I'm Dying Laughing Ulla Rahbek , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 18 no. 2 2003; (p. 23-34) This paper discusses the trope of monstrosity ... in relation to characterisation and intertextuality in particular. Protagonist Emily Wilkes is seen as an American communist whose infatuation with American riches leads to her downfall. She is discussed as pure id, unrestrained and unconventional, and increasingly mad.' (Author's abstract)
1 Tales of Love, Lust, Jealousy and Revenge : Intertextuality in Marion Halligan's Spidercup Ulla Rahbek , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: English Studies , vol. 77 no. 4 1996; (p. 367-374)
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