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First known date:
2005...
no.
43
April
2005
of
New Literatures Review
est. 1975
New Literatures Review
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* Contents derived from the 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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'Furnishing the Australia of Our Dreams' : Nostalgic Grief and Deathly Contamination in Miles Franklin's Diaries,
single work
criticism
In this article, Sandra Knowles draws upon The Diaries of Miles Franklin, as well as the 'Diary Notebooks', held at the Mitchell Library, to examine Franklin's complicated nationalism and "to establish a relationship between nationalism and the diary form to consider the way both resist the 'other'" (7).
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'Don't Touch, Don't Leave' : Leprosy and Intimacy in Rowena Ivers' 'The Spotted Skin',
single work
criticism
In this essay, Luisa Percoco speculates 'on how notions of intimacy are negotiated and produced in Western and colonial discursive constructions of disease' (39). With regards to The Spotted Skin, she asks: 'How is identity, together with intimate perceptions of who we are, informed, and often distorted by strict racial and gender divisions? What constitutes a leprous body? How is it defined?' (39).
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Spitting the Dummy : Collaborative Life Writing and Ventriloquism,
single work
criticism
This article sets out to 'trace the deployment of the metaphor of ventriloquism in collaborative life writing, highlight the frequency with which it is utilised, and to suggest that its application in critical reading may have outrun its usefulness' (p69). It engages with life writing theorists including G. Thomas Couser and Paul John Eakin, and includes comment on Tim Rowse's reading of the Australian Aboriginal life writing text, I, the Aboriginal.
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Oodgeroo's 'Polluting Memories' : Technologies of the Intersubjective Contact Zone,
single work
criticism
Russo utilises Ghassan Hage's phrase 'polluting memory' in her reading of the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal to draw attention to the intersubjective and reciprocal act of wrting/reading, and to suggest that Oodgeroo's writing contributes to 'a new logic of co-habitation' (109) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
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