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The Reflected Eye : Reading Race in Barbara Baynton's 'Billy Skywonkie'
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Texas Studies in Literature and Language , Winter vol. 53 no. 4 2011; (p. 387-400) 'The stories in Bush Studies are deeply unsettling, not least because they are deliberately ambiguous. This ambiguity is one reason the stories have been subject to the process of continued critical re-evaluation and dispute noted by Leigh Dale. "Billy Skywonkie" is a story the ambiguity of which seems to have infected its critical reception. This essay seeks to make explicit what is often left unclear in discussions of the story: it is remarkable for presenting a narrative told in part from the point of view of a woman experiencing racism in its intersection with sexual and economic vulnerability in the early years of the twentieth century' (p. 387). -
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) -
The Teeth Father Naked at Last : The Short Stories of Barbara Baynton
1979
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Three Australian Writers : Essays On Bruce Dawe, Barbara Baynton and Patrick White 1979; (p. 12-22) -
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'.
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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'. -
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) -
The Reflected Eye : Reading Race in Barbara Baynton's 'Billy Skywonkie'
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Texas Studies in Literature and Language , Winter vol. 53 no. 4 2011; (p. 387-400) 'The stories in Bush Studies are deeply unsettling, not least because they are deliberately ambiguous. This ambiguity is one reason the stories have been subject to the process of continued critical re-evaluation and dispute noted by Leigh Dale. "Billy Skywonkie" is a story the ambiguity of which seems to have infected its critical reception. This essay seeks to make explicit what is often left unclear in discussions of the story: it is remarkable for presenting a narrative told in part from the point of view of a woman experiencing racism in its intersection with sexual and economic vulnerability in the early years of the twentieth century' (p. 387). -
The Teeth Father Naked at Last : The Short Stories of Barbara Baynton
1979
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Three Australian Writers : Essays On Bruce Dawe, Barbara Baynton and Patrick White 1979; (p. 12-22)
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