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- form y Squeaker's Mate 1973 (Manuscript version)x401294 Z1060208 1973 single work film/TV Squeaker's Mate is based on Barbara Baynton's short story of the same name, first published in Bush Studies (a selection of nightmarish tales that reflect bush life as through a distorting mirror). The story is set in Gippsland in 1880 and concerns a woman who, after being disabled in a logging accident, is cruelly discarded by the man with whom she shares a primitive outback farm.
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The Sheep’s Face : Figuration, Empathy, Ethics
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016; 'The word ‘species’ is etymologically related to looking. Although its primary biological definition is that of beings that can interbreed,species can refer to things of like kind: thisrelates to the term’s Latin derivation, specere, meaning to look. Describing how things look and conveying this appearance to others (whether in writing, or in relaying a memory) typically involves the use of metaphor. This article reads a number of Australian texts in terms of interspecies relations between humans and sheep, and considers the use of metaphor—and metonymy—and the place of ethics in this relation, with a particular emphasis on the face of both human and sheep: how sheep and humans look, in both senses of the word.' (Author's introduction) -
"The Chosen Vessel" and the Ghost Wife
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: Southerly , August vol. 76 no. 1 2016; (p. 144-168) ' In an interview in the Guardian in 2004, the renowned American author Annie Proulx spoke of her admiration for the work of a little known Australian writer called Barbara Baynton. The creator of Brokeback Mountain described how she was drawn to the work of another female writer whose work was "aesthetically rudimentary, but takes harshness, between men and women, and the land, to a painful level of implacability" (Edemariam). Proulx was referring specifically to her favourite Baynton short story, Squeaker's Mate, though her comments are applicable to almost every story in Baynton's Bush Studies (1902), a collection characterised by relentlessly unsentimental and brutal depictions of life in remote Australian locations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' (Publication summary) -
Structure against Place, Fate and Cruelty : Deplorable State of Bush Women from the Works of Barbara Baynton
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Women's Writing in English : India and Australia 2008; (p. 149-156) -
'Shafts into Our Fundamental Animalism': Barbara Baynton's Use of Naturalism in 'Bush Studies'
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 17 no. 3 1996; (p. 211-221) -
Things a Bushwoman Cannot Do
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Debutante Nation : Feminism Contests the 1890s 1993; (p. 185-198; notes 242-244)
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A Note On Barbara Baynton
1949
single work
review
— Appears in: Arts Quarterly , Summer 1949; (p. 8-13)
— Review of The Chosen Vessel 1896 single work short story ; Bush Studies 1902 selected work short story ; Squeaker's Mate 1902 single work short story ; Scrammy 'And 1902 single work short story ; Billy Skywonkie 1902 single work short story ; Bush Church 1902 single work short story ; Human Toll 1907 single work novel Discusses Barbara Baynton's 'bare objectivity' and 'treatment of subject matter' which, in Peter Cowan's view, 'tends to exclude the writer's personality'. -
'Squeaker's Mate' : A Bushwoman's Tale
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , Summer no. 3 1986; (p. 26-44) -
Structure against Place, Fate and Cruelty : Deplorable State of Bush Women from the Works of Barbara Baynton
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Women's Writing in English : India and Australia 2008; (p. 149-156) -
Footnotes to an Australian Gothic Script
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 7 no. 2 1993; (p. 127-134) -
'Shafts into Our Fundamental Animalism': Barbara Baynton's Use of Naturalism in 'Bush Studies'
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 17 no. 3 1996; (p. 211-221) -
Nationality and Australian Literature
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies : A Survey 1989; (p. 136-155)
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