Annual Bulletin no.21 (December 2005)
Director’s Report
A
greater time than usual has elapsed since the publication of our last
Annual Bulletin. Over the summer of 2004/05 the ground floor of UWA’s
Arts building, home of the Westerly Centre, underwent substantial
renovations. For continuing to work on the Bulletin (and his other
duties as Honours Coordinator of English, Communication and Cultural
Studies) amid this disruption, Van merits our profound thanks.
The
period covered by this report finds us in a cycle of significant
anniversaries. The biennial symposium on 'Literature and Culture in the
Asia-Pacific' co-sponsored by the Centre and the National University of
Singapore celebrated its twentieth anniversary. This landmark was the
occasion for one of our best conferences ever, according to feedback
from participants. The two founders of the meeting, Professors Bruce
Bennett and Edwin Thumboo, gave keynote addresses that reflected on the
history and future directions of our subjects. It was a pleasure to see
so many old friends and to welcome younger scholars. Dennis Haskell,
Megan McKinlay and Pamina Rich have prepared a book of edited and
refereed essays based on conference papers, to be published by the
Westerly Centre and UWA Press.
Another milestone is the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of Westerly,
our flagship journal. I congratulate the editors, Delys Bird and Dennis
Haskell, on the journal, and thank them for their hard work. I would
also like to thank the Westerly Centre administrator, Dr Monica
Anderson, for her thorough and careful assistance and support.
A number of distinguished scholars visited the
Centre during the year, and took part in teaching activities as well as
research. Professor Robert Dixon from the University of Queensland led
valuable seminars in 'Research Methods' for ECCS Honours students, gave
a paper, and facilitated a discussion on Australian Studies. Associate
Professor Don Randall from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, spent a
semester with us as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow, offering an
Honours Seminar on David Malouf and researching a monograph on his
work. Dr John Eustace from Acadia University in Canada concluded his
year’s sabbatical in ECCS and the Centre for Aboriginal Studies.
The Westerly Centre continues to support scholarly
publishing in the area of Australian literary and cultural studies in
partnership with other publishers. This year we assisted in the
publication of Tanya Dalziell’s mono-graph, Settler Romances and the Australian Girl (UWA Press). Another book, Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press, by Judy Johnston and Monica Anderson, is in press.
The online AustLit database is proving its value
to teachers and researchers of Australian Literature. Although up and
running, this is a continuing project, on which Dan Midalia is the
Research Associate. Dan is working on a comprehensive bibliography of
West Australian writing with Delys Bird and Dennis Haskell. The Centre
is an original partner in this nation-wide investment in cultural and
scholarly infrastructure, and is committed to providing ongoing support
for it.
I would finally like to welcome back to Perth
Professor Gareth Griffiths, and to welcome Dr Alison Bartlett, newly
appointed Senior Lecturer in UWA’s Centre for Women’s Studies, as
members of our Centre.
- Kieran Dolin
Activities of Members
Alison Bartlett
Alison Bartlett arrived at UWA in February 2005 from the University of
Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, where she has taught literature for
nine years. Her appointment is in Women’s Studies, and Alison has been
teaching the upper level unit ‘Sex Bodies Spaces’ and the first year
unit on ‘Screen Cultures, Print Cultures’. Since starting at UWA Alison
has been to Tianjin to liaise with students and is supervising two
Tianjin doctoral students.
Alison has given papers at a number
of conferences, including the Generations of Australian Feminisms
conference in Adelaide on ‘Corporeal Feminism and its Uses’; the
Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference at Murdoch
University on ‘Reading Rachel’s Breasts: scripts and meanings for
breastfeeding’; the Australian Women’s Studies Association conference
at Sydney University on ‘Imagining Breast-feeding in Popular Culture’;
and the Australian Literature Conference in Sydney on ‘Critics,
Crucibles and a Literary Career: Inez Baranay’s Neem Dreams’.
Alison
has had articles published in Feminist Teacher, Birth Issues, Sex
Education and Australian Feminist Studies (in an edition she guest
edited with Fiona Giles), and is currently preparing proofs for a book
being published by UNSW Press this year titled Breast-work: Rethinking
Breastfeeding. This work brings together research from the past 5 years
on current cultural meanings of women’s bodies, breasts and babies and
their historical contexts.
Veronica Brady
Veronica Brady has
delivered papers at many conferences over the past year: at the Women
Scholars of Religion and Theology conference at the Australian Catholic
University in Melbourne; the Biology Conference organised by the ACT
branch of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature at the
National Library in Canberra; and at the 2005 Perth International
Festival of the Arts she was part of a panel addressing the subject of
‘Our Creative City’. In April 2005 Veronica was part of the 'Colloquium
on Sense of Place' in southern Tasmania, and she gave an invited paper
at the conference on 'Sacred Ground: Place and Spirituality in
Australia' in Canberra and an invited paper at the conference on
'Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural
Society' organised by the Cross-Cultural Research Centre at the
Australian National University.
In Perth she spoke on Patrick
White to the Retired Teachers Association of WA and was part of a panel
at the WACOSS conference on 'Shaping Community'. Veronica also gave
papers at the 11th International Literacy and Education Research
Network Conference on Learning (Havana, Cuba), the Future of Humanities
conference (at the Monash Center in Prato, Italy), at the Conference on
Religion, Belief and Spirituality (at the Bardon Centre, Brisbane), at
the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and at the Edmund Rice Centre (at the
University of Notre Dame). She gave a paper on 'Religion in Australia'
at the conference on Modernism and Modernisation organised by the
Australian Studies Centre (at Curtin University) and also gave a paper
at the Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference (at the University
of Sydney). She was a keynote speaker at both the 3rd State Conference
of the International Education Association on ‘Duty of Care’ and at the
English Australia Conference (Adelaide). Veronica gave a paper at the
WA History Conference to celebrate 175 years of settlement and was an
invited member of the Conference on Human Dignity (Hobart) jointly
organised by the University of Sydney and the University of Tasmania.
Tanya Dalziell
Tanya
Dalziell published her first book, Settler Romances and the Australian
Girl (UWA Press, 2004), and, with Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, contributed an
article on Australian film to Postscript: Essays in Film and the
Humanities. She also presented papers at the European Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, the Association for the
Studies of Australian Literature, and the Landscapes, Exiles,
Belonging, Home symposium. She gave the 4th Annual McDermott Lecture on
postcolonial literatures at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and
presented a plenary lecture at the same institution at a conference on
masculinities. At the Universities of Barcelona (Spain), A Corunna
(Spain) and Aachen (Germany), she gave lectures and seminars to
students on Australian literature, and held a 3 week seminar on
Postcolonial Narratives at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany).
She also taught a new Honours seminar at UWA on Australian cinema.
Tanya is currently working on two projects, On Critical Mourning:
Politics, Poetics, Practice, and Modernism and Music, areas in which
she also published.
Kieran Dolin
Kieran Dolin this year has
been teaching a postgraduate 'Australian Literature Course' to students
of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China. This course was set up by
Dennis Haskell, ECCS Chair of discipline Ian Saunders, and former
postgraduate student and Tianjin resident, Dr Fen Liang. The setting up
and teaching of the course has been undertaken by Kieran and Dr Megan
McKinlay.
Kieran continues to research an introductory book on
literature and the law for Cambridge University Press. As a by-product
of this research, he delivered a paper on the 'Critique of Justice in
Christina Stead’s Salzburg Tales' to an Australian Studies Symposium
held at UWA in November.
Dennis Haskell
Dennis Haskell gave
a paper on ‘Australian Values in Australian Jokes’ at a conference of
the Indian Association for the Study of Australia held at Jawarhalal
Nehru University (Delhi) and left the delegates rolling in the aisles.
Dennis later in the year delivered a different version of the paper to
a community group at UWA’s Albany Centre. While in India, with
sponsorship from the Australia-India Council Dennis travelled to Ajmer
in Rajasthan with Satendra Nandan and Bruce Bennett, giving a talk on
‘Poetic Image and Symbol’ and meeting with postgraduate students of
Dayanand College to discuss their Australian thesis topics; Dennis also
lectured on ‘Australian Poetic Traditions’ at Jawarhalal Nehru
University. Dennis gave a paper on ‘Representations of Heat in
Australian and Singaporean Literature and Painting’ at a conference of
the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China, held
at the National University of Taiwan; the paper was published in the
conference proceedings as ‘Sunburnt Country and Sweating Island:
Representation of Heat in Australian and Singaporean Literature and
Painting’. Dennis spoke on University Governance to a National
Conference of Chairs of Academic Boards, discussed ‘Waltzing Matilda’
at St George’s College (UWA) and spoke about ‘Clancy of the Overflow’
on ABC Radio.
Dennis launched Ross Bolleter’s book of poetry,
All the Iron Night, the first publication of Smokebush Press, and is
participating in ArtsWA forums on Poetry which seek to improve the
awareness of WA poetry.
Dennis is involved in organisation of
the new Doctor of Arts degree, teaching 'Australian literature into
China' at Tianjin Foreign Studies University. In June Dennis took part
with the main teachers in the programme, Kieran Dolin and Megan
McKinlay, in a presentation about the programme at a UWA Teaching and
Learning Showcase, then in Washington DC he took up the Group of Eight
Chair in Australian Studies at Georgetown University for five months.
Megan
McKinlay and Dennis are completing a critical anthology of contemporary
poetry and fiction in South-East Asia. This has been an enormous task
and was begun almost a decade ago. The project involves working with
editors for the literature of each country in the region; during the
period of the project two of the editors have died, one new country –
East Timor - has been created, and countries such as Indonesia and
Cambodia have seen enormous changes. One of the aims of the project is
to depict Australian literature in this context; a great deal of
Asian-Australian writing has emerged during this period.
Dennis
wrote entries on the Westerly magazine and on Poetry for the
Encyclopaedia of Western Australia currently in preparation from the
Centre for Studies in Western Australian History, UWA; and published a
book chapter, 'The Mythical, Mystical Bush', in Cultural Interfaces,
ed. Santosh K. Sareen, Sheel C, Nuna & Malati Mathur (New Delhi:
Indialog, 2004). Dennis has published poems in England, India and
elsewhere, and his poem 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was the first
published by the West Australian newspaper in its resumption of poetry
publishing after many years. Dennis has a new collection of poems, All
the Time in the World, due from Salt Publishing in December 2005.
With
Delys Bird and Toby Burrows, Dennis has overseen the Westerly Centre’s
continuing participation in Austlit, the comprehensive electronic
database of Australian literature being prepared by a coalition of
eight willing universities and the National Library.
Van Ikin
Van
Ikin worked with PhD student Darren Jorgensen to prepare the 'Annual
Bibliography of Australian Literature' for The Journal of Commonwealth
Literature (UK), and continues as editor/publisher of Science Fiction:
A Review of Speculative Literature, now in its twenty-eighth year of
publication (but running drastically behind schedule due to problems
with new software).
In 2005 Van clocked up his 114th review as
SF/Fantasy reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, having survived
under at least eight different literary editors since 1984. He also
continues to interview new and established Australian Science Fiction
and Fantasy authors, trying to build up an archive reflecting the
views, hopes, and problems of authors working in this burgeoning field.
These interviews appear regularly as ‘The Ikin Interviews’ in the
magazine Aurealis: Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Van
supervises a large number of postgraduates, especially for the MA
(Creative Writing), and is currently supervising four candidates for
the University’s PhD in Creative Writing, introduced in 2002, as well
as supervising two postgraduate students at Tianjin University in
China. He is also the Co-ordinator of the First Year Creative Writing
unit in ECCS and the Co-ordinator of the ECCS Honours program.
Van
wrote the entry on 'Science Fiction and Fantasy' for the forthcoming
Encyclopaedia of Western Australia and (with Sean McMullen) he wrote an
essay on the history of Australian Science Fiction for the forthcoming
Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. His most recent short story,
‘Quietly Dead, Quietly Buried’ appeared in the fiftieth anniversary
issue of Westerly; though only 1600 words in length, the story has been
gestating since December 1967!
Judith Johnston
Judith
Johnston attended the ‘World and Text: Ethics, Aesthetics and Emotions’
conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature at
the University of Sydney in July 2004 where she presented a paper
titled ‘The Genesis and Commodification of Australian Legendary Tales’
which is part of a larger project on women and the transformation of
culture in the nineteenth century. She also attended the joint
Australasian Victorian Studies Association/ Dickens Project conference
in Sydney titled ‘Antipodes’ in July 2004 where she presented a paper,
‘Australia and the Victorian Periodical Press’ arguing that the British
press played an important role in the construction of Australian
settler identities based in part on cartoons from the period. The
conference was rich in offerings on the connections between Victorian
literature and culture and the formation of Australia.
The
Anthology Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press
1800-1900, which Judith has co-authored and edited with Monica
Anderson, is in press and will be published in March 2005 by UWA Press.
Judith’s book, Gender and the British Periodical, co-authored
with Hilary Fraser and Stephanie Green, was published by Cambridge
University Press in December 2003. Judith’s contribution includes a
chapter on ‘Gender and Cultural Imperialism’ in which the argument is
supported by reference to British periodical articles about Australia.
A review in the Times Literary Supplement noted ‘fascinating chapters
on the representation of feminism and imperial expansion in the press’
(TLS 9 July 2004, p.28).
Judith’s teaching included tutoring on
‘Australian Contemporary Literature: Fiction into Film’ and presenting
lectures on Richard Flanagan’s The Sound of One Hand Clapping. She has
also produced lectures on Jean Bedford’s Sister Kate and Richard
Flanagan’s The Sound of One Hand Clapping for students at Tianjin
University in China.
Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch obtained
$10,000 seed-funding from the ARC to develop the UWA-based Network in
Early European Research, and was a participant in its subsequent
successful application to the ARC Research Networks scheme. NEER has
been funded at $1.6 million over 5 years. One of its four main research
themes is ‘Cultural Memory’, investigating the persistence and
transformation of early European influences in Australian life. Andrew
has recently been awarded an ARC Discovery Grant (2005-07) for his
project ‘Medieval War in Modern Imagination’, which includes Australian
literature and film. He spoke on war in Tolkien at the Medieval
Institute Congress (USA) in May, and was an invited plenary speaker at
the ‘Once and Future Medievalisms’ conference at Melbourne University
in September, with an address on ‘British Medievalist Fictions as
Cultural Struggle’. He is currently preparing a paper on Christopher
Brennan’s A Chant of Doom (1918) for the ANZAMEMS conference in
Auckland, February 2005. His publications in 2004 include a study of
modern children’s versions of Le Morte Darthur and two pieces on
medieval literature. He is still editing the international medieval and
early modern studies journal Parergon, which has recently been included
by Project Muse in its collection.
Megan McKinlay
Megan
McKinlay has been working with Kieran Dolin and Dennis Haskell on
development and delivery of the Doctoral Program in Australian Studies
being taught on-line to students at Tianjin Foreign Studies University,
China. With Kieran and Dennis, she gave a presentation at the
‘elearning Showcase’ organised by the Centre for the Advancement of
Teaching and Learning.
She continues to work with Dennis Haskell
on editing an anthology of Southeast Asian poetry and fiction,
anticipating completion of the project in 2005. She is also working
with Dennis and Pamina Rich to put together a proceedings volume from
the CSAL/Westerly Centre Symposium held at UWA in December 2004.
She
has served in 2004 as a member of the State Literature Board and has
conducted a number of creative writing workshops at metropolitan high
schools. Her 2004 publications include poetry and short fiction in a
range of literary journals.
George Seddon
George Seddon was
given the 'Lifetime Planning Achievement Award' at the 2004 Planning
Institute of Australia (PIA) National Conference in Hobart (following
receipt of the WA State Award the previous year); this was the first
time that this award has been made, in over twenty years. He was also
invited to give the Gordon Stephenson Oration at the WA PIA conference
in the new, bleak Perth Conference Centre in November 2004,
subsequently taking a group of planners around the settlements at
Rottnest (which offer more lively planning lessons than the Centre).
Other
speaking engagements for George have included a talk at the Sydney
Writers’ Festival in May 2004 and the keynote address to the Forest
Consciousness Forum at Augusta (the first time this influential forum
has been held in WA). Several talks, mostly on the dubious future of
the Murray, were given at the La Trobe campus at Mildura, where George
spent ten years of his youth. (George comments: ‘My family left the
Chaffey brothers’ vision splendid and Ernestine Hill’s Water into Gold
half way through World War Two, and I had never been back, so it was a
time-capsule experience. My father’s proud bank is now,
symptomatically, a rather shady disco, as is the old Post Office, while
the Town Hall and Courthouse buildings are near-derelict.’)
In
what he describes as ‘the scribbling line of business’, George had an
essay in Disputed Territories. Land, Culture and Identity in Settler
Societies, edited by David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths (Hong Kong:
Hong Kong University, 2003), and another (‘The gouty-stemmed tree’) in
The Best Australian Essays of 2004, edited by Robert Dessaix
(Melbourne, Black Inc, 2004). A limited facsimile edition of Sense of
Place, with several new essays, was launched in December 2004, and two
new books – which George says are his last – are scheduled for
production in 2005. The first is A Landscape for Learning; a History of
the Grounds of the University of Western Australia, co-authored with
Gillian Lilleyman (UWA Press); the second is The Return of the Native:
Uses and Abuses of the Australian Flora, commissioned by CUP.
Visitors to The Westerly Centre
The
Westerly Centre, in conjunction with English, Communication and Cultural
Studies and the Institute of Advanced Studies, hosted Associate
Professor Don Randall of Bilkent University, Turkey, for first semester
2004. Dr Randall taught an honours unit on David Malouf while
researching a book-length critical study of Malouf’s works. He gave
several talks on his research, and proved a lively and distinguished
visitor.
John Eustace, from Acadia University in Canada,
completed a year’s sabbatical at the Centre in mid-2004. John was
researching Aboriginal writing and in particular the Nyoongar protest
at US author Marlo Morgan’s fraudulent book about contact with
Australian Aboriginal people.
John Kinsella was Writer in
Residence, and Professor at Large attached to UWA’s Institute for
Advanced Studies, at various periods throughout 2004. John gave
readings of his work, and conducted poetry and creative writing classes.
Others
visiting for shorter periods included Michael Ackland (Monash
University, February), Matteo Baraldi (University of Bologna, October),
Santosh Sareeen (JNU, Delhi, June), and Sahlia Ben-Messahel (Charles
Gaulle University, Lille, July). Brief visits were made by poet Paul
Hetherington (February), playwright Alan Seymour (February), Professor
Gopal (Indira Gandhi University, Delhi, May), Makarand Paranjape (JNU,
Delhi, September), and Bruce Bennett (ADFA, December). Postgraduate
students who came to the Centre to further their research included
Indians Nilanjana Deb (University of Calcutta, October) and Sumathy
Thangapandian (Queen Mary’s College, Chennai, November), and German
Jennifer Neikes (RWTH-Aachen, October-November). Among local writers to
have frequent contact with the Centre were Sri Lankan-Australian Sunil
Govinagge and Nyoongar poet and fiction writer, Alf Taylor. Dennis
Haskell is helping Alf with the completion of his memoir as a member of
the Stolen Generation.
Graduate and Postgraduate Information
Congratulations
to Monica Anderson whose PhD is to be published by Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press in the USA under the title Women and the Politics of
Travel, 1870-1914. Other recent successful completions include Shelley
Saunders, writing on ‘The Prodigal Son: A Post-Colonial Reading of
Patrick White’s Fiction’; Dianne Wolfer, whose Young Adult novel
Shadows Walking is under consideration by Penguin; and Ian Nichols, who
wrote a Young Adult fantasy novel, Soldier Boy.
Postgraduate students working on aspects of Australian Culture for the PhD include:
CAROL ANDERSON: ‘On the Contrary: Women Travellers writing Counter-Narratives
in the Nineteenth Century’ (supervised by Judith Johnston).
ROGER BOURKE: writing on fiction about Australian Prisoners of War under the
Japanese in World War II (supervised by Delys Bird and Dennis Haskell);
Roger has been invited to give a paper on the topic at a conference in
Singapore in 2005.
NAOMI BRITTEN: ‘Reframing the Australian Gothic:
a Comparative Study of Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Female
Gothic Narratives’ (supervised by Judith Johnston and Brenda Walker).
TERRY DOWLING: writing a novel, Clowns at Midnight, offering a vision of an
alternative Australian culture (supervised by Van Ikin).
ANTHONY EATON: writing a Young adult science fiction novel set in a future
Australia; the work has just been published as Nightpeople (UQP, 2005)
(supervised by Van Ikin).
WARREN FLYNN: writing a novel, Celestial Spaces, offering an Australian perspective on Korean culture (supervised by Van Ikin).
NIGEL GRAY: writing an autobiographical novel, Shades of Gray, which will
include sections on his life in Australia (supervised by Van Ikin).
KAREN HALL: ‘Discovering the ‘Lost Race’ Story: Writing Science Fiction,
Writing History’ (supervised by Judith Johnston). Karen has attended
several local and interstate conferences, delivering papers based on
her work that have been well received. Her thesis includes an
exploration of the writing of Catherine Helen Spence.
DENISE HILL:
‘Katherine Mansfield: the Fictions of Travel’ (supervised by Judith
Johnston). Denise was awarded an inaugural Faculty of Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences Dean’s Postgraduate Award to fund travel to
Wellington, New Zealand to explore recent Mansfield manuscript
acquisitions.
JOHN RALPH: writing the first Australian thesis to
use critique génétique, on manuscripts of Robert Drewe and Kate
Grenville (supervised by Dennis Haskell).
MARTHE REED: researching
the Poetics of Place in the work of four contemporary poets, one of
whom is John Kinsella (supervised by Dennis Haskell).
SALLY RICHARDSON: writing on social memory of the Great Depression and the
social situation of Aboriginal Australians (supervised by Dennis
Haskell).
ENID SEDGWICK: researching German influences on Catherine
Martin and Henry Handel Richardson (supervised by Dennis Haskell and
Alexandra Ludewig in European Studies).
SARAH STOW: ‘Emigration,
Australia, and the Rhetoric of Duty’ (jointly supervised by Judith
Johnston with supervisors at SUNY-Stonybrook).
JEANETTE WEEDA-ZUIDERSMA: ‘In Search of Mother: Representations of Motherhood in
Contemporary Australian Literature – A Fictocritical Exploration’
(supervised by Delys Bird and Van Ikin).
Postgraduate students working on aspects of Australian Culture for the MA or MA (Creative Writing) include:
ANNA DONALD: writing a novel, Tenants, set in Broome and surrounds (supervised by Van Ikin).
KARA JACOB: writing a novel of ‘magical realism’, The Heroines of Art, set in remote WA (supervised by Van Ikin).
ANNE JOYNER: writing on landscape in contemporary Australian fiction (supervised by Kieran Dolin).
MARCELLA POLAIN: writing a novel about the effects on a contemporary Australian
of the Armenian Genocide (supervised by Dennis Haskell).
LOUISE SCHOFIELD: writing a Young Adult fantasy novel, The O Ferry, set in
Australia and dealing with aspects of multiculturalism (supervised by
Van Ikin).
BARBARA TEMPERTON: writing about folk stories from Albany, WA (supervised by Dennis Haskell).
Publications from the Westerly Centre(formerly CSAL)
Beyond
Good and Evil? Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific
Region. Edited by Dennis Haskell, Megan McKinlay, and Pamina Rich (Perth: UWA Press & The Westerly Centre, 2005). ISBN 1 920694 63 3 paperback:
$29.95.
At
the beginning of the twenty-first century are we balancing on an axis
of good and evil? How do the concepts of good and evil operate in the
literature and culture of the Asia-Pacific region? Writers and scholars
from the region examine subjects ranging from the Japanese ‘evil’ of
WWII to the appropriation of indigenous cultures and the ethics of
biographical writing. Although diverse, the essays share an interest in
the conflicts between relativism and fundamentalism, between
uncertainty and sureness, that are so much with us in this
fast-developing region of the world.
Future Imaginings: Sexualities and Genders in the New Millennium. Edited by Delys Bird, Terri-ann White, and Wendy Ware (Perth: UWA Press & The Westerly Centre, 2003). ISBN 1 920694 07 2 paperback:
$32.95.
At
the beginning of the new millennium, gender-related issues seem less
public and more personal than in the past. Yet there are still a myriad
of debates to be had and issues to be resolved. In Future Imaginings,
leading Australian scholars from a range of disciplines investigate,
interrogate, and develop new ways of thinking about gender. The result
is a collection that not only challenges established perceptions of
gender relations and identities, but explores diverse cultural
interpretations and symbolisations of gender – how these have changed,
and continue to change into the future.
Other titles from the press
Ashcoft, Bill. The Gimbals of Unease: The Poetry of Francis Webb (CSAL, 1996). ISBN 0 86422 530 X $23.95
Barcan, Ruth and Ian Buchanan, eds. Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry (University of Western Australia Press in association with CSAL, 1999). ISBN 1 876268 37 9 $34.95
Bennett, Bruce (with Peter Cowan, John Hay, Susan Ashford). Western Australian Writing: A Bibliography (Fremantle Arts Centre Press in association with CSAL, 1990). ISBN 0 949206 42 3 $19.95 [out of stock]
---, and John Hay, eds. European Relations: Essays for Helen Watson-Williams (CSAL, 1985). ISBN 0 86433016 4 $13.95
---, and Susan Miller, eds. A Sense of Exile: Essays in the Literature of the Asia Pacific Region (CSAL, 1988). ISBN 0 86422 072 3 $12.95
---, and Susan Miller, eds. Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes: The Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region (CSAL, 1993). ISBN 0 86422 072 3. $12.95
---, ed. Peter Cowan: New Critical Essays (CSAL, 1992). ISBN 0 875560 10 6 $19.95
---, Peter Cowan, Dennis Haskell and Susan Miller. Westerly Looks To Asia (Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies in association with CSAL, 1993). ISBN 1 86342 169 6. $25.00
Bird, Delys and Brenda Walker, eds. Elizabeth Jolley: New Critical Essays (Collins/Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, in association with CSAL, 1991). ISBN $14.95 [out of stock]
Freadman, Richard, ed. Literature, Criticism and the Universities. Interviews with Leonie Kramer, S.L. Goldberg & Howard Felperin (CSAL, 1983). ISBN 0 909751 81 1 $2.00
Haskell, Dennis and Hilary Fraser, eds. Wordhord: A Critical Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry (Fremantle Arts Centre Press in association with CSAL, 1989). ISBN 0 949206 42 3 $19.95
---, and Ron Shapiro, eds. Interactions: Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region (University of Western Australia Press in association with CSAL, 2000). ISBN 1 876268 50 6 $32.95
---, ed. Tilting at Matilda (Fremantle Arts Centre Pres, 1994). ISBN 1 86368 105 1. $19.95
Ikin, Van, ed. Glass Reptile Breakout: and other Australian Speculative Stories (CSAL, 1990). ISBN 0 86422 099 5 $14.95.
Kramer, Leonie. From Fact to Legend: Writing and Broadcasting in Australia (CSAL, 1982). ISBN 0 909751 75 1 $2.00 [out of stock]
Mengham, Rod and Glen Phillips. Fairly Obsessive: Essays on the Works of John Kinsella (CSAL, 2000). ISBN 1 86368 325 9. $29.95.
Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson). Dalwurra: The Black Bittern. Ed. With Introduction by Veronica Brady (CSAL, 1988). ISBN 0 86422 072 3 $12.95 [out of stock]
Nettelbeck, Amanda, ed. Provisional Maps: Critical Essays on David Malouf (CSAL, 1994). ISBN 0 86422 3000 5. $18.00
O'Sullivan, Vincent, ed. The Unsparing Scourge: Australian Satirical Texts 1845-1860 (CSAL, 1988). ISBN 0 86422 056 1 $12.95
Ram, A Janaki and Bruce Bennett, eds. Encounters: Selected Indian and Australian Short Studies (Pointer Publishers, Jaipur, in association with CSAL, 1988). ISBN 81 7132 008 2. $15.00.
Saunders, Ian. Open Texts, Partial Maps (CSAL 1993). ISBN 0 86422 238 6. $13.00 [out of stock]
Seddon. George. Swan Song: Reflections on Perth and Western Australia 1956-1995 (CSAL, 1995). ISBN 0 86422 428 1 $24.95
Thumboo, Edwin. Perceiving Other Worlds (University of Singapore Press in association with CSAL, 1991). ISBN 981 210 010 5 $15.00.
White, R. S. Furphy’s Shakespeare (CSAL, 1989). ISBN 0 86422 086 3 $9.95.
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