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The Wail in the Native Oak
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"Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine,"
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1861...
1861
The Wail in the Native Oak
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The Tree and Its Voices : What the Casuarina Says
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , Summer vol. 1 no. 2011; 'The tree known popularly and scientifically as the casuarina has been consistently noticed for the sounds made as wind passes through its unusual foliage of needles and leaf scales. The acoustic experience of the casuarina — with subspecies found throughout Australia — has been represented as 'haunted', 'grieving' and voicing the secret language of initiates. This essay traces intriguing conceptual and aesthetic representations of the 'voice' and its listeners found across both Aboriginal and white Australian cultures in traditional English verse, Aboriginal prose narrative, accounts of cultural practices, and hybrid blends of all three. The essay adopts the notion of 'listening to listening' to set out the many forms of story the tree's sounds generate their contribution to identifying places, and to suggest a specific Aboriginal song-line appears to underlie the divergent replications of tree-'voice' across southern Australia.' (Author's abstract)
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Henry Kendall's 'Aboriginal Man' : Autochthony and Extinction in the Settler Colony
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 50-60) 'McCann shows how the poet Henry Kendall's dreams of establishing an Australian landscape are haunted at every turn by the indigenous presence...' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010) -
The Obstinacy of the Sacred
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 152-157) Examines contemporary Australian literature with the view that 'the sacred is at once a powerful symptom of postcolonial disquiet and a path of flight that promises to lead beyond this, and beyond history itself'. (p. 157) -
Kendall's Sublime Melancholy
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 418-443)
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The Obstinacy of the Sacred
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 152-157) Examines contemporary Australian literature with the view that 'the sacred is at once a powerful symptom of postcolonial disquiet and a path of flight that promises to lead beyond this, and beyond history itself'. (p. 157) -
Henry Kendall's 'Aboriginal Man' : Autochthony and Extinction in the Settler Colony
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 50-60) 'McCann shows how the poet Henry Kendall's dreams of establishing an Australian landscape are haunted at every turn by the indigenous presence...' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010) -
The Tree and Its Voices : What the Casuarina Says
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , Summer vol. 1 no. 2011; 'The tree known popularly and scientifically as the casuarina has been consistently noticed for the sounds made as wind passes through its unusual foliage of needles and leaf scales. The acoustic experience of the casuarina — with subspecies found throughout Australia — has been represented as 'haunted', 'grieving' and voicing the secret language of initiates. This essay traces intriguing conceptual and aesthetic representations of the 'voice' and its listeners found across both Aboriginal and white Australian cultures in traditional English verse, Aboriginal prose narrative, accounts of cultural practices, and hybrid blends of all three. The essay adopts the notion of 'listening to listening' to set out the many forms of story the tree's sounds generate their contribution to identifying places, and to suggest a specific Aboriginal song-line appears to underlie the divergent replications of tree-'voice' across southern Australia.' (Author's abstract)
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Kendall's Sublime Melancholy
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 418-443)
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