Articles

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Introduction: Currents, Cross-Currents, Undercurrents (with Frances Devlin-Glass), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)

The similarities in an issue such as this one are often purely serendipitous; JASAL 10...

 
Special issue: Australian Literature in a Global World - Introduction (with Wenche Ommundsen), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
 

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"On your knees, white man": African (un)belongings in Rian Malan's 'My traitor's heart', ERA - Humanities & Creative Arts 2009 (restricted) (2007)

It would be unfair to see the figure of John Paul II on his knees...

 

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Myths, Traditions and Mothers of the Nation: Some thoughts on Efua Sutherland’s Writing, Entertext (2005)

Focusing in some detail on three of her plays, this paper addresses the work of...

 

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Narrating a White Africa: autobiography, race and history, Third World Quarterly (2005)

The last three decades have witnessed a radical transformation in the political and social make-up...

 

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Rethinking Marginality: Class, Identity and Desire in Contemporary Australian Writing, ERA - Humanities & Creative Arts 2009 (restricted) (2004)

This essay fuses together a critical examination of contemporary Australian literary writings and a personal...

 

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Rethinking Marginality: class, identity and desire in contemporary Australian writing, Life Writing (2004)

This essay fuses together a critical examination of contemporary Australian literary writings and a personal...

 

Contributions to Books

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Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, Race and History, in E. Bainbridge (ed.), Connecting Cultures (2008)

This paper will focus on two childhood memoirs published after the end of minority regimes...

 

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Redeeming self: the business of whiteness in post-apartheid South African writing, in M. Casey, A. Moreton-Robinson & F. Nicoll (Eds.), Transnational Whiteness Matters (2008)

Genuflecting before the last British governor on the soil of her beloved Kenyan farm in...