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y separately published work icon Michael and Me and the Sun single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Michael and Me and the Sun
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'Rites of passage autobiography of the Adelaide artist and author, who comes of age while studying at the London School of Art during the swinging sixties. '

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 1992 .
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      Extent: 166p.
      Description: illus. (16 Hanrahan etchings); ports. (cover).
      ISBN: 0702224847
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An Autobiographical Extract from Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 extract autobiography (Michael and Me and the Sun)
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 52 1992; (p. 3-5)
A Selection from Michael and Me and the Sun - Barbara Hanrahan's Final Book Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 extract autobiography (Michael and Me and the Sun)
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 6 no. 2 1992; (p. 107-108)
Getting Away Barbara Hanrahan , 1994 single work autobiography extract
— Appears in: Changing Places : Australian Writers in Europe 1960s-1990s 1994; (p. 64-65)
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Works about this Work

'The Sex Thing Is Strange' : The Queerness of Barbara Hanrahan’s Fiction Damien Barlow , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing 2017; (p. 227-241)

'This chapter explores Barbara Hanrahan’s notion that sexuality “can manifest itself in all sorts of ways” disrupts the naturalised binary logic that governs cultural intelligibility about what constitutes “real” sex and what remains unimaginable and unspeakable. It also highlights a preoccupation in her writing with non-normative sexual desires and identities that is akin to the critical concerns of queer epistemologies. The chapter takes Hanrahan’s contestation of normative thinking about sexuality as a starting point to critically examine the queerness of her “fantastic novels”. By reading Hanrahan’s fiction queerly we are offered a valuable critique that challenges the normalising power of heterosexuality and its claims to be the only intelligible and “natural” way to organise desire.'

Source: Abstract.
[Review] Michael and Me and the Sun Beate Josephi , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 38 no. 2 1993; (p. 86-87)
— Review of Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography
Rewarding Insight into Author's Life Margaret Steinberger , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 6 February 1993; (p. 44)
— Review of Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography
The Brightest Under the Sun Leon Trainor , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 January 1993; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Knitting Emily Bridget Elizabeth Stead , 1992 selected work short story ; Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography ; Looking for Unicorns Doris Brett , 1992 single work novel
Steaming Open Women's Lives Jennifer Cooke , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 December 1992; (p. 31)
— Review of Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography
The Brightest Under the Sun Leon Trainor , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 January 1993; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Knitting Emily Bridget Elizabeth Stead , 1992 selected work short story ; Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography ; Looking for Unicorns Doris Brett , 1992 single work novel
Forecasts Rosemary Sorensen , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , September vol. 72 no. 1030 1992; (p. 31)
— Review of Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography
Barbara and Men and Sex Helen Elliott , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 146 1992; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography
Fun Times Portraying London of the '60s Helen Covernton , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 14 November 1992; (p. 5)
— Review of Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography
Steaming Open Women's Lives Jennifer Cooke , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 December 1992; (p. 31)
— Review of Michael and Me and the Sun Barbara Hanrahan , 1992 single work autobiography
Editorial Rosemary Sorensen , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 146 1992; (p. 2)
'The Sex Thing Is Strange' : The Queerness of Barbara Hanrahan’s Fiction Damien Barlow , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing 2017; (p. 227-241)

'This chapter explores Barbara Hanrahan’s notion that sexuality “can manifest itself in all sorts of ways” disrupts the naturalised binary logic that governs cultural intelligibility about what constitutes “real” sex and what remains unimaginable and unspeakable. It also highlights a preoccupation in her writing with non-normative sexual desires and identities that is akin to the critical concerns of queer epistemologies. The chapter takes Hanrahan’s contestation of normative thinking about sexuality as a starting point to critically examine the queerness of her “fantastic novels”. By reading Hanrahan’s fiction queerly we are offered a valuable critique that challenges the normalising power of heterosexuality and its claims to be the only intelligible and “natural” way to organise desire.'

Source: Abstract.
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  • London,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1960s
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