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Target Article
That's my story and I'm
sticking to it: truth in fiction, lies in fact was presented by Marion
Halligan as the keynote address at the 1998 Tasmanian Readers' and Writers'
Festival. In an elegant essay Halligan discusses readerly expectations,
writerly devices and the interplay across fact, fiction and other textual
spaces.
Plus
Breaking Taboos is an exploration
of writing, taboo and white silence which was delivered by Alexis Wright
at the 1998 Tasmanian Readers' and Writers' Festival.
An extract from Libby Robin's latest book: Defending
the Little Desert in which Robin explores the ecology of the campaign
to defend the Victorian Little Desert against agricultural development
and its profound impact on the processes of environmental decision-making.
In Dot-spangled banner Philip
Batty looks at the appropriation of Aboriginal tropes in representations
of Australian identity.
Reviews
In a controversial review of Andrew Riemer's Sandstone
Gothic: Confessions of an Accidental Academic Stephen
Knight assesses Riemer's account of the decline of literary studies
at the University of Sydney ...
and in Live Burial Melissa
Hardie reads Riemer's memoir as a parody of the gothic while also countering
his suggestion that much contemporary scholarship can be summed up as
'unintelligible writings'.
In emuse
In good oil
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Lisbet de Castro Lopo responds
to Riemer's memoirs, as well as to reviews of the work by both Stephen
Knight and Melissa Hardie.
The travelling Turn the Soil
exhibition is a long-term national project exploring alternative stories
about Australia with the aim of putting the Republican debate on more
fertile ground. Both
have resulted from workshops run as part of this
project.
Moira McAuliffe, David
Hart, Adi Wimmer and Leith
Morton respond to Kerryn Goldsworthy's article "Needing
His Signature".
