Literature and Politics
The 3rd annual conference of
The Australasian Association for Literature
University of Sydney
Monday July 6 -Tuesday July 7 2009
Speakers and abstracts
Austin, Michael
The Unknown Conservative: Commitment and the Rule of Law in some recent Australian Fiction.
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The Unknown Conservative: Commitment and the Rule of Law in some recent Australian Fiction.
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Barker, Karen
“Rouse up your feeling intensely!” The double horizon of Jean Devanny’s socialist teleology and the élan ouvrier
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“Rouse up your feeling intensely!” The double horizon of Jean Devanny’s socialist teleology and the élan ouvrier
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Boucher, Geoff
“A Challenge to the Mere Politicization of Literature: The Frankfurt School and New Humanism”
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“A Challenge to the Mere Politicization of Literature: The Frankfurt School and New Humanism”
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Burdett, Lorraine
Politics and Patrick White: Cold War Culture and the Paranoid Subject in The Aunt’s Story
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Politics and Patrick White: Cold War Culture and the Paranoid Subject in The Aunt’s Story
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Christie, Michael
Anthony Macris’s Capital, volume one: Negating Financial Derivatives and Neoliberalism through Literary Form
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Anthony Macris’s Capital, volume one: Negating Financial Derivatives and Neoliberalism through Literary Form
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Christie, Will
“Politics and poetry are different things”: English Whig Bards and Scottish Whig Reviewers
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“Politics and poetry are different things”: English Whig Bards and Scottish Whig Reviewers
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Clipstone, Lyndall
“I’m having an old friend for dinner” : Identity and Gourmet Cannibalism in The Silence of the Lambs
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“I’m having an old friend for dinner” : Identity and Gourmet Cannibalism in The Silence of the Lambs
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Coghlan, Jo
The Syncretic Philosophies of Sukarno:Merdeka and the ‘imagined state’ in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia
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The Syncretic Philosophies of Sukarno:Merdeka and the ‘imagined state’ in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia
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Curry, Alice
‘And, please, don’t tell me I hate foreigners’; Racial Prejudice and Ideological Blind Space in Anne Provoost’s Falling (1997) and John Boyne’s The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2006).
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‘And, please, don’t tell me I hate foreigners’; Racial Prejudice and Ideological Blind Space in Anne Provoost’s Falling (1997) and John Boyne’s The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2006).
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Dalley, Hamish
Repenting Colonialism: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and Nationalist Historiography
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Repenting Colonialism: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and Nationalist Historiography
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Dickson, Sam
The Spectre of Capitalism: The Haunted Ideological Subject in Don DeLillo's Falling Man
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The Spectre of Capitalism: The Haunted Ideological Subject in Don DeLillo's Falling Man
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Dunstan, Angela
‘An interesting failure’: Vernon Lee’s Miss Brown and the Sexual Politics of Pre-Raphaelite Aestheticism
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‘An interesting failure’: Vernon Lee’s Miss Brown and the Sexual Politics of Pre-Raphaelite Aestheticism
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Ensor, Jason D
“A Policy of Splendid Isolation”: Angus & Robertson, George G Harrap and the politics of co-operation in the Australian book trade during the late 1930s.
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“A Policy of Splendid Isolation”: Angus & Robertson, George G Harrap and the politics of co-operation in the Australian book trade during the late 1930s.
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Haag, Oliver
The Politics of Publishing Indigenous Literatures in Germany: A Comparative Study of Australian and New Zealand Indigenous Literatures in German Translation
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The Politics of Publishing Indigenous Literatures in Germany: A Comparative Study of Australian and New Zealand Indigenous Literatures in German Translation
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Jenkins, Gareth S.
Resisting Rational Transformation: Mannix Narrating Psychiatry Narrating Mannix
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Resisting Rational Transformation: Mannix Narrating Psychiatry Narrating Mannix
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Kordela, Kiarina
Secular Logics for Grounding Truths and Laws: Amor Fati, Magic, and Prevention
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Secular Logics for Grounding Truths and Laws: Amor Fati, Magic, and Prevention
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Kuch, Peter
‘We writers are not politicians’—W.B. Yeats: Poetry, Plays, Prose and Politics, and the Politics of Publication.
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‘We writers are not politicians’—W.B. Yeats: Poetry, Plays, Prose and Politics, and the Politics of Publication.
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Lawrence, Stephen
‘Politics and Australian poetry: Public events and private poetics’: “Like old lovers, politics and the arts have shared an extended intimacy”
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‘Politics and Australian poetry: Public events and private poetics’: “Like old lovers, politics and the arts have shared an extended intimacy”
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Martin, Jenn
‘Now we’ll see what I can do with this planet’: The Rejection of Frontier Analogies in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy.
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‘Now we’ll see what I can do with this planet’: The Rejection of Frontier Analogies in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy.
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Munjal, Savi
Telling Stories in a De-storied World – Fictionalizing History in The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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Telling Stories in a De-storied World – Fictionalizing History in The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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Poland, Louise
From Mother I’m Rooted to Angels of Power: A Collective History of Feminist Anthologies
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From Mother I’m Rooted to Angels of Power: A Collective History of Feminist Anthologies
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Rene, Nyah Yong
Cross-Fertilizing Nature and Culture: Re-reading Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
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Cross-Fertilizing Nature and Culture: Re-reading Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
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Sands, Jessica
Sex and Gender Inequality as Contributing Factors of Crime in the Edgar Allen Poe Award-Winners (2000-2008)
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Sex and Gender Inequality as Contributing Factors of Crime in the Edgar Allen Poe Award-Winners (2000-2008)
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Solomon, Stefan
“Layin’ ‘mong de t’ings I’s allus knowed”: Racial Representation and the Residual
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“Layin’ ‘mong de t’ings I’s allus knowed”: Racial Representation and the Residual
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Somlo, Scarlett
The Madness of Money, Politics and Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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The Madness of Money, Politics and Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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Thomas, Roie
The Khoi-San People of the Kalahari: Their Struggle and their Representation in the work of Laurens Van Der Post.
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The Khoi-San People of the Kalahari: Their Struggle and their Representation in the work of Laurens Van Der Post.
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Treep, Elizabeth
Being at Home in Australia: Utopian Constructions in Eve Langley’s Bancroft House
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Being at Home in Australia: Utopian Constructions in Eve Langley’s Bancroft House
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Tuggle, Lindsay
“Blood in the ground”: Alice Notley’s Ecopoetics of Mourning in Alma, or the Dead Women
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“Blood in the ground”: Alice Notley’s Ecopoetics of Mourning in Alma, or the Dead Women
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Vardoulakis, Dimitris
Political Literature in Greece: The case of Aris Alexandrou’s The Mission Box
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Political Literature in Greece: The case of Aris Alexandrou’s The Mission Box
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Wallace, Joy and John O’Carroll
The Significance of Writing: From Meanjin to The Little Company.
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The Significance of Writing: From Meanjin to The Little Company.
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Whiteford, Peter
“Don’t mention the War:” Editorial Intervention in John Mulgan’s Report on Experience.
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“Don’t mention the War:” Editorial Intervention in John Mulgan’s Report on Experience.
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Yerkes, Andrew
“A Biology of Dictatorships”: Liberal Realism in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here
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“A Biology of Dictatorships”: Liberal Realism in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here
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Zolkos, Magdalena
“Every man must do his work with love.” Provocations of Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones
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“Every man must do his work with love.” Provocations of Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones
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