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First published in the Australasian in 1878
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Worldly Reading : Teaching Australian Literature in the Twenty-first Century
2017
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— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 52 no. 3 2017; (p. 21-30)'This paper examines the role of literature in the English classroom in Australia and its part in shaping national identity. We contend that it is important to consider the possible roles of national literatures in contemporary school contexts, where students are becoming local and global citizens and argue that reading Australian literature as a part of the field of ‘world literature’ can support a pedagogical approach which enables dynamic reading practices. Drawing on a 2016 research project titled Teaching Australia, which sought to explore English teachers’ engagement with Australian texts, this paper examines current and future uses of Australian literature in both the globalised world and in the Australian secondary English classroom.' (Publication abstract)
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The Centaur and the Cyborg : Abject Becoming on the Colonial Frontier
2007
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 211-225) -
The Mysterious Edward/Ellen De Lacy Evans : The Picaresque in Real Life
2002
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— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , Autumn no. 69 2002; (p. 59-68) -
Transvestism and Colonial Narratives of Itinerancy and Settlement
2000
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— Appears in: Outskirts : Feminisms along the Edge , May vol. 6 no. 2000; 'In Australian fiction from the colonial period onward the transvestite is a recurrent figure in those rural and bush settings which function as metonyms of Australia, and onto which mythologies of distinctively Australian identities are so often invented. Transvestites continued their service of traversing rural Australia into the 1990s, mapping out spaces for identity formation in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), however this essay will focus on three narratives from the colonial period, to examine the deployment of transvestism in fiction written in the period leading up to Australian Federation in 1901. Such a focus is timely at the advent of the centenary of Federation in 2001 in its investigation of an enduring trope of white Australian identity and its relationship to the occupation and settlement of place. Examination of the operations of transvestic tropism identifies the literal fictionality of such claims by their situation in a highly conventional Romantic aesthetic and epistemology. The texts I will focus on are: Joseph Furphy's Such is Life, published in 1903 but written mostly in the 1890s, Tasma's "Monsieur Caloche" (1889), and Ernest Favenc's "The Parson's Blackboy" (1893)' (Lead paragraph). -
Australia Crossed-Over : Images of Cross-Dressing in Australian Art
1997
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— Appears in: Art And Australia , vol. 34 no. 3 1997; (p. 372-379) McMahon discusses the way in which 'from the early colonial period, transvestism has been deployed as a central motif or conceit in Australian visual art, photography and film, as well as in ballads, literary narratives and drama (p.374).
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The Centaur and the Cyborg : Abject Becoming on the Colonial Frontier
2007
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 211-225) -
Australia Crossed-Over : Images of Cross-Dressing in Australian Art
1997
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— Appears in: Art And Australia , vol. 34 no. 3 1997; (p. 372-379) McMahon discusses the way in which 'from the early colonial period, transvestism has been deployed as a central motif or conceit in Australian visual art, photography and film, as well as in ballads, literary narratives and drama (p.374). -
Transvestism and Colonial Narratives of Itinerancy and Settlement
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Outskirts : Feminisms along the Edge , May vol. 6 no. 2000; 'In Australian fiction from the colonial period onward the transvestite is a recurrent figure in those rural and bush settings which function as metonyms of Australia, and onto which mythologies of distinctively Australian identities are so often invented. Transvestites continued their service of traversing rural Australia into the 1990s, mapping out spaces for identity formation in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), however this essay will focus on three narratives from the colonial period, to examine the deployment of transvestism in fiction written in the period leading up to Australian Federation in 1901. Such a focus is timely at the advent of the centenary of Federation in 2001 in its investigation of an enduring trope of white Australian identity and its relationship to the occupation and settlement of place. Examination of the operations of transvestic tropism identifies the literal fictionality of such claims by their situation in a highly conventional Romantic aesthetic and epistemology. The texts I will focus on are: Joseph Furphy's Such is Life, published in 1903 but written mostly in the 1890s, Tasma's "Monsieur Caloche" (1889), and Ernest Favenc's "The Parson's Blackboy" (1893)' (Lead paragraph). -
Oscar Wilde in Eve Langley's White Topee: The Transvestic Origins of the Australian Self Made Man
1996
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— Appears in: Southerly , Spring vol. 56 no. 3 1996; (p. 102-114) -
Why Do All These Women Have Moustaches? : Gender, Boundary and Frontier in "Such is Life" and "Monsieur Caloche"
1992
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— Appears in: Southern Review , March vol. 25 no. 1 1992; (p. 68-77) Martin examines the relationship between the geographical boundaries and the boundaries of the body that enable Tom Collins to make sense of the world. Martin argues that the male-like females threaten the boundaries and simple binary divisions by which Tom Collins navigates the world. Any male/female partnerships such as Tom and Jim or the two Alfs do not create neat binary structures, but form ambiguous cross-gender doubling. This ambiguity indicates the permeability of supposed gender boundaries, leading Martin to argue that if women are read as a metaphor for land in Such is Life, the land suffers the same ambiguity.
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