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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 In the Wake of First Contact : The Eliza Fraser Stories
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'Eliza Fraser was an English woman shipwrecked on the Australian coast in 1836, where she lived with an Aboriginal community until her rescue. The story of a 'civilised' white female being taken captive by 'savage' black men was both fascinating and repulsive. Images and narratives surrounding this notorious episode have proliferated from the 1830s to the present. Kay Schaffer looks at the various literary and artistic manifestations of Eliza Fraser as a fictional presence in Australian culture. Schaffer looks at the contemporary narratives, and at more recent representations of Mrs Fraser in film, in the art of Sidney Nolan and the writing of Patrick White. The book uses these texts to examine historical discourses of colonialism, race, gender and nation. This accessible and stimulating book promises to make an impressive contribution to women's studies, cultural studies and Australian history.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)

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* Contents derived from the Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
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Western Europe, Europe,:Cambridge University Press , 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Patrick White's Novel, A Fringe of Leaves, Kay Schaffer , single work criticism (p. 157-175)
A Universal Post-Colonial Myth? : Representations Beyond Australia, Kay Schaffer , single work criticism (p. 176-202)
And Now for the Movie : Popular Accounts, Kay Schaffer , single work criticism (p. 203-227)
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Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series Clare Archer-Lean , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 175-188) 'Clare Archer-Lean focuses 'on the textual strategies of journey and impermanence. These can be understood through theoretical notions of trickster, a deliberately incoherent and slippery figure/story, alongside the symbolic ramification of water, representing movement and fluidity, to read Johnson's use of the journey motif. The journey motif in these works can be expanded to included the intra-textual journeys Johnson's writing carries out between its own past and present forms and how this self-referentiality constructs a challenge to the notion of a fixed and stable journal and record of any journey.' (175)
Settler Post-Colonialism and Australian Literary Culture Anna Johnston , Alan Lawson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 28-40) 'This essay begins by mapping the place of settler postcolonialism in postcolonial studies, and its relevance to the Australian context. It then moves to demonstrate the applicability of settler postcolonial reading practices for Australian texts and contexts through two paradigmatic tropes: land and textuality.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
Two Artistic Interpretations of the Eliza Fraser Exile Narrative Michael Hannan , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe 2008; (p. 239-247)
y separately published work icon The Chief Protector Returns : Textual Representations of A.O. Neville Australia's Coloured Minority : Its Place in the Community Rebecca Dorgelo , Tasmania : 2007 14181244 2007 single work thesis

'This thesis examines the different ways in which representations of A. O. Neville—Chief Protector of Aborigines / Commissioner of Native Affairs in Western Australia from 1915 to 1940—operate in a select group of texts. I argue that Neville is a highly charged synecdochic figure who stands in, discursively, for all white, bureaucratic administrators, in order to distil changing anxieties about Australia and its past. I examine key texts from Neville’s own writing to a range of more recent, fictional texts. I utilise a postcolonial approach in my analysis of the figure of Neville, through a reading of his continuing incarnations in Australian literature and culture. This project seeks to do with A.O. Neville what Kay Schaffer’s In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories did with Eliza Fraser.'  (Publication abstract)
Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves Briar Wood , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2002; (p. 84-94) Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature 2002; (p. 84-94)
Mrs Fraser and the Savage Within Andrew Hassam , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 19 July no. 4868 1996; (p. 24)
— Review of In the Wake of First Contact : The Eliza Fraser Stories Kay Schaffer , 1995 single work criticism
Untitled Ann McGrath , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Oceania , December vol. 70 no. 2 1999; (p. 203-04)
— Review of In the Wake of First Contact : The Eliza Fraser Stories Kay Schaffer , 1995 single work criticism
Untitled David Callahan , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 12 no. 1 1997; (p. 158-160)
— Review of In the Wake of First Contact : The Eliza Fraser Stories Kay Schaffer , 1995 single work criticism
Two Artistic Interpretations of the Eliza Fraser Exile Narrative Michael Hannan , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe 2008; (p. 239-247)
Settler Post-Colonialism and Australian Literary Culture Anna Johnston , Alan Lawson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 28-40) 'This essay begins by mapping the place of settler postcolonialism in postcolonial studies, and its relevance to the Australian context. It then moves to demonstrate the applicability of settler postcolonial reading practices for Australian texts and contexts through two paradigmatic tropes: land and textuality.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
Bats and Crows : Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo/Johnson's Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series Clare Archer-Lean , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 175-188) 'Clare Archer-Lean focuses 'on the textual strategies of journey and impermanence. These can be understood through theoretical notions of trickster, a deliberately incoherent and slippery figure/story, alongside the symbolic ramification of water, representing movement and fluidity, to read Johnson's use of the journey motif. The journey motif in these works can be expanded to included the intra-textual journeys Johnson's writing carries out between its own past and present forms and how this self-referentiality constructs a challenge to the notion of a fixed and stable journal and record of any journey.' (175)
Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves Briar Wood , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2002; (p. 84-94) Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature 2002; (p. 84-94)
y separately published work icon The Chief Protector Returns : Textual Representations of A.O. Neville Australia's Coloured Minority : Its Place in the Community Rebecca Dorgelo , Tasmania : 2007 14181244 2007 single work thesis

'This thesis examines the different ways in which representations of A. O. Neville—Chief Protector of Aborigines / Commissioner of Native Affairs in Western Australia from 1915 to 1940—operate in a select group of texts. I argue that Neville is a highly charged synecdochic figure who stands in, discursively, for all white, bureaucratic administrators, in order to distil changing anxieties about Australia and its past. I examine key texts from Neville’s own writing to a range of more recent, fictional texts. I utilise a postcolonial approach in my analysis of the figure of Neville, through a reading of his continuing incarnations in Australian literature and culture. This project seeks to do with A.O. Neville what Kay Schaffer’s In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories did with Eliza Fraser.'  (Publication abstract)
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