Tuesday 7th July 2009
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9.00-10.30 |
Concurrent sessions |
| A | European Places Lee, Tom From Place to Place: Travel and Illness in W. G. Sebald’s Vertigo McLean, Thomas A Familiar Road: The Eastern European Immigrant and British Literature Kölling, Angela The very meat of politics in Joschka Fischer’s Mein langer Lauf zu mir selbst |
| B | Genocide Mercer, Erin Saul Bellow’s difficulties with Holocaust representation in The Victim Steven, Mark Secondary Mass Graves: Confronting Genocide through Literature Zolkos, Magdalena “Every man must do his work with love.” Provocations of Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones |
| C | Writing & Publishing as Politics Wallace, Joy and John O’Carroll The Significance of Writing: From Meanjin to The Little Company. Moore, Tony ‘Bohemians in the Street: Artists, Politics and Cultural Activism’ Lawrence, Stephen ‘Politics and Australian poetry: Public events and private poetics’: “Like old lovers, politics and the arts have shared an extended intimacy” |
| D | Fiction and History Stachurski, Christina Writing Pitcairn Young, Samantha Paradigm Shift In Contemporary Australian Fiction Dalley, Hamish Repenting Colonialism: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and Nationalist Historiography |
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10.30-11.00 |
Morning Tea |
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11.00-12.00 |
Concurrent sessions |
| A | The Political Use of Books Zwar, Jan Cultural value and the role of books in public debate in Australia in 2004 Sands, Jessica Sex and Gender Inequality as Contributing Factors of Crime in the Edgar Allen Poe Award-Winners (2000-2008) Ng, Lynda Who Narrates the Nation? Prizes, Politics and (Trans-)National Identity |
| B | Feminist Politics Pham, Hoa From Orlando to Kieu- Writing from the post- colonial feminist diaspora Poland, Louise From Mother I’m Rooted to Angels of Power: A Collective History of Feminist Anthologies Sersier, Tania Speaking Out, Writing Stories: Feminist Politics and Literary Practices |
| C | Shakespeare and Byron Phillips, James “The Practicalities of the Absolute: Sovereignty in Shakespeare’s Richard II” Griffiths, Huw The hands and tongues of sovereignty in King John Christie, Will “Politics and poetry are different things”: English Whig Bards and Scottish Whig Reviewers |
| D | Violence and Writing Generani, Gustavo The Beetle: A Betrayed Rhetoric Williams, David On the Limits of Irony: Dubravka Ugrešić’s Post/Yugoslav Fiction McNaughton, Howard Kilroy’s Baghdad |
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12.30-1.30 |
Lunch |
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1.30-3.00 |
Concurrent sessions |
| A | Ecopoetics Tuggle, Lindsay “Blood in the ground”: Alice Notley’s Ecopoetics of Mourning in Alma, or the Dead Women Musgrave, David The Politics of The Anti-Pastoral 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. |
| B | Writing among Upheaval Orloff, Carolina Julio Cortázar’s Forgotten Politics: Anti-Peronism in the Rise of a Writer. Whiteford, Peter “Don’t mention the War:” Editorial Intervention in John Mulgan’s Report on Experience. Yerkes, Andrew “A Biology of Dictatorships”: Liberal Realism in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here |
| C | Aestheticism and Individuality Yeatman, Anna Revolutionary Road and the Politics of Individuality Dunstan, Angela ‘An interesting failure’: Vernon Lee’s Miss Brown and the Sexual Politics of Pre-Raphaelite Aestheticism Clipstone, Lyndall “I’m having an old friend for dinner” : Identity and Gourmet Cannibalism in The Silence of the Lambs |
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3.00-3.30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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3.30-5.00 |
Concurrent sessions |
| People, Law, Struggle Thomas, Roie The Khoi-San People Of The Kalahari: Their Struggle And Their Representation In The Work Of Laurens Van Der Post. van Rijswijk, Honni Literary and Legal Judgment in Carpentaria and Mabo Austin, Michael The Unknown Conservative: Commitment and the Rule of Law in some recent Australian Fiction. |
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| Place, Nature, Politics Rene, Nyah Yong Cross-Fertilizing Nature And Culture: Re-Reading Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between And Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Munjal, Savi Telling Stories in a De-storied World – Fictionalizing History in The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. |
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| Contemporary Fictions Whiting, Kezia Ethics and Politics: Intrusion in Ian McEwan’s Saturday Williams, Marise The altermodern political moment in Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark (2008) Sheehan, Paul The Road, Cormac McCarthy |
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5.30-6.30 |
Plenary |