http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1486 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:39 GMT 2013-05-22T19:27:39Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1502 Title: "You are writing a gospel...":"Life Writing" and the Lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha Community. [abstract]. Authors: Spencer, Tracy Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the construction of an hybrid life-writing text similar to the genre of ‘gospel’ and incorporating ‘parable’. The text produced for the project ‘White Lives in a Black Community: the lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community’ seeks to narrate historic lives, through a postmodern and postcolonial hybrid text, in order to engage the contemporary reader in a critical response to Indigenous – non-Indigenous relationships in Australia. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1502 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1501 Title: Lost Generation: Women Writers in Postwar Australia. [abstract]. Authors: Sheridan, Susan Margaret Abstract: Australia, 1959: In Tasmania, poet Gwen Harwood starts sending out her poems under male pseudonyms, after several encounters with misogynist literary editors; Dorothy Hewett, silent for the previous decade, publishes "Bobbin Up", a successful novel in the social realist mode approved by the Communist Party (of which she was a member) but one that allowed little scope to her poetic gifts or her theatrical ambitions; Elizabeth Jolley arrives in Perth from England and begins to send out stories, but must wait until 1976 to publish a book. They are but three of the generation of women writers who were largely lost from view in the 1950s and 60s, and who are now in danger of being eclipsed in subsequent histories. In looking for answers to the question of why their early careers were so beset with difficulties, Professor Sheridan hopes at the same time to create a picture of the literary culture of the period that will be different because of the presence of women in it – and to offer accounts of these women’s writing lives that will expand our understanding of their art and its continuing significance. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1501 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1500 Title: "Written extempore" William Anderson Cawthorne's "Literarium Diarium", A Colonial Diary. [abstract]. Authors: Hosking, Rick Abstract: The Adelaide schoolteacher William Anderson Cawthorne began writing his "Literarium Diarium" 22 October 1842, keeping the diary going until the 1860s. It survives in a number of battered volumes in the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales; one of Cawthorne’s daughters left her father’s papers to the library in the 1920s. The "Literarium Diarium" is a remarkable — if sometimes self indulgent — informal record of life in and around colonial Adelaide in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, in both word and image, in that Cawthorne was not only a writer but also a watercolourist, and many of the pages are illustrated. Its perspective is that of the 'littérateur', of the weekend amateur ethnographer; the diary has been recognised as one of the best records of everyday contact between the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and the colonists that we have. While the diary is of considerable importance for its representation of the day-to-day minutiae of Adelaide life in the 1840s and 1850s, it is also remarkably revealing of the private thoughts and feelings of a young man on the fringes of lower middle class society in Adelaide. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1500 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1499 Title: The Life of a Long-Distance Satirist: How to Write a Book about Bruce Petty. [abstract]. Authors: Phiddian, Robert Andrew Abstract: In this paper, Robert Phiddian explores four pragmatic issues involved in writing a biography of Australian cartoonist and illustrator, Bruce Petty. When your subject has published at least weekly and often daily since 1963 (apart from annual leave and a brief hiatus of 2 months in 1976), your problem is one of profusion. When your subject has also made a dozen animated features, hundreds of prints, several sculptures, and half a dozen books, your problem with profusion is not exactly dissipating. When your subject has led a personal life that in many ways exemplifies the social changes in Australia in a period spanning the Depression to the present, and is happy enough to talk about them, sanity demands that you view profusion is a realm of happy opportunity. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1499 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z