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Italian Australian Studies: A (Post)Colonial Perspective (with G. Rando), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
This chapter introduces the volume and discusses related theoretical issues. This volume seeks to map...
Mai lontan dal cuore — manifestazioni e trasmutazioni del rapporto con il paese di origine (with G. Rando), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
The field of Italian Australian studies is both diverse and dynamic. It has embraced topics...
Diasporic Spectrality: Minorities & Cultural Assertions in Canada, Australia and Beyond (with G. Rando), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
This paper provides a critical introduction to a special issue of Australian Canadian Studies 23(2)...
Vampiric Decolonization: Fanon, 'Terrorism' and Mudrooroo’s Vampire Trilogy, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
[Extract] Long before the fact of Australia was ever confirmed by explorers and cartographers it...
Compr(om)ising Postcolonialisms: Postcolonial Pedagogy and the Uncanny Space of Possibility, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
The title of this paper is drawn from a conference of the same name that...
Persistence of Vision: Memory, Migration & Citizenship - Free Trade or the Faulure of Cross-Culturality?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
In my novel, Flying in Silence, set in both Australia and Canada, my principal character...
Re-Marking on History, or, Playing Basketball with Godzilla: Thomas King’s Monstrous Post-colonial Gesture, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2003)
[Extract] The act of colonisation is articulated through the language of Western epistemology: through “scientific”...
Re-mastering the Ghosts: Mudrooroo and Gothic Refigurations, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2003)
[Extract] This paper discusses the question of the Gothic mode as it has been used...
"A Fearful Calligraphy": De/scribing the Uncanny Nation in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2002)
[Extract] This paper takes as its starting point Joy Kogawa’s 1981 novel Obasan, a story...
Secrets - Flying in Silence, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] “Sex”, my father said, “isn’t all that it’s made out to be. People talk...
Australian Gothic, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1998)
[Extract] Long before the fact of Australia was ever confirmed by explorers and cartographers it...
Sexual Gothic: Marian Engel’s Bear and Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1995)
[Extract] In the process of retrieving female writing from patriarchal control, women writers have focussed...
In–Flight History: the Canadian–Australian Literary Prize and the Question of Nationalism, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1995)
[Extract] .... the Canadian–Australian Prize may well be celebrating a shaky reality indeed, if the...