Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Australian Women's Writing. This project, the first to examine gendered violence in Australian literature, argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how these writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women's agencie ....Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Australian Women's Writing. This project, the first to examine gendered violence in Australian literature, argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how these writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women's agencies. By including white, Indigenous and minority women writers in its case studies, and by interviewing selected writers, it will shed new light on the role of gendered violence in the diverse and interconnected cultural histories of the nation, and will significantly extend the parameters of the Australian literary canon.Read moreRead less
Community Publishing in Regional Australia. This project aims to find new ways to support the increasing number of regional Australians, including regional Indigenous Australians, who use digital technologies to write and publish their own books. This project expects to create advanced knowledge of these community practices and their cultural and economic significance, shifting questions about the future of the book from multinational firms to regional communities. Expected outcomes include tool ....Community Publishing in Regional Australia. This project aims to find new ways to support the increasing number of regional Australians, including regional Indigenous Australians, who use digital technologies to write and publish their own books. This project expects to create advanced knowledge of these community practices and their cultural and economic significance, shifting questions about the future of the book from multinational firms to regional communities. Expected outcomes include toolkits to provide access and skills development for regional Australians, and market knowledge for industry. This should provide significant benefits including market development to ensure the Australian book industry’s sustainability and new methods to advance regional Australia’s culture.Read moreRead less
Australian Indigenous storytelling: a critical study of the way Aboriginal stories are being told in Australia today. This research project will investigate the role and effectiveness of Aboriginal storytelling in the current environment of Aboriginal policy in Australia. The outcomes will form a set of benchmarks for understanding the power of effective Aboriginal storytelling.
Reading the Nation: A critical study of Aboriginal/settler representations in the contemporary Australian literary landscape. This project will map literary representations of Aboriginal Australians by non-Aboriginal authors in the post-Mabo period, and the reciprocal representations by Aboriginal Australians. This is a study of the politics of representation that play out between Aboriginal and white Australians in the contemporary literary landscape.
Forms of world literature. This project aims to explore a new vision of ‘world literature’. Creative writing is a way of thinking, and theoretical possibilities arise from the exchange between literary criticism and literary practice. This project will bring the formal and thematic interests of four eminent Australian writers – Alexis Wright, Nicholas Jose, Gail Jones and J.M. Coetzee – into dialogue with each other and a team of critical respondents. Critical and creative dialogues between Indi ....Forms of world literature. This project aims to explore a new vision of ‘world literature’. Creative writing is a way of thinking, and theoretical possibilities arise from the exchange between literary criticism and literary practice. This project will bring the formal and thematic interests of four eminent Australian writers – Alexis Wright, Nicholas Jose, Gail Jones and J.M. Coetzee – into dialogue with each other and a team of critical respondents. Critical and creative dialogues between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, Argentina, China, and England provide an opportunity to think about how contemporary Australian writing might meaningfully be considered in the terms of world literature.Read moreRead less
Dorothy Hewett: A literary biography. This project will produce the first biography of the major Australian playwright, novelist and poet Dorothy Hewett. Employing archival records and new oral histories against and alongside Hewett's own literary construction of her life, in many genres, this project combines literary and historical biography in an innovative approach to recreating her life and career. Rethinking Hewett's legacy, this project provides a new understanding of her widely studied b ....Dorothy Hewett: A literary biography. This project will produce the first biography of the major Australian playwright, novelist and poet Dorothy Hewett. Employing archival records and new oral histories against and alongside Hewett's own literary construction of her life, in many genres, this project combines literary and historical biography in an innovative approach to recreating her life and career. Rethinking Hewett's legacy, this project provides a new understanding of her widely studied body of work and enriches the cultural history of twentieth-century Australia. It will produce a substantial study of the life of an extraordinary Australian writer, for scholarly and general readers, enlivening Australia's literary heritage for a new generation.Read moreRead less
Making New Readers: The Australasian Book Society and the Cold War. This project aims to produce the first full history of one of the boldest ventures in Australian publishing. The Australasian Book Society sought to develop new readers and writers in mid-century Cold War Australia. Using a rich web of archival sources, this project shows whether and how the Society met those ambitious aims. New knowledge about the unique business model of a grassroots nationalist publisher will lead to deeper u ....Making New Readers: The Australasian Book Society and the Cold War. This project aims to produce the first full history of one of the boldest ventures in Australian publishing. The Australasian Book Society sought to develop new readers and writers in mid-century Cold War Australia. Using a rich web of archival sources, this project shows whether and how the Society met those ambitious aims. New knowledge about the unique business model of a grassroots nationalist publisher will lead to deeper understanding of the development of Australian working-class writing and reading. This will afford new insights into Australian literary identity for a nation still committed to reading, an archive preserved for future generations and, for the determining global history of the Cold War, a revealing Australian case.Read moreRead less
Australian literature after Mabo. This project explores how property law concepts shape literary visions of the land in Australia, and how cultural stories about land shape property law. The project is especially interested in identifying how the recognition of native title in Australian law is anticipated and then reflected in Australian Literature.
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200704
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$178,386.00
Summary
Between Indian and Pacific Oceans: Reframing Australian Literatures. Between Indian and Pacific Oceans: Reframing Australian Literature. This project aims to analyse the presence and role of Pacific and Indian Oceans in Australian literature from the mid-nineteenth century until the present. Using innovative approaches developed from interdisciplinary oceanic and archipelagic studies, the project aims to generate new knowledge about how Australian culture has formed in relation to these oceanic ....Between Indian and Pacific Oceans: Reframing Australian Literatures. Between Indian and Pacific Oceans: Reframing Australian Literature. This project aims to analyse the presence and role of Pacific and Indian Oceans in Australian literature from the mid-nineteenth century until the present. Using innovative approaches developed from interdisciplinary oceanic and archipelagic studies, the project aims to generate new knowledge about how Australian culture has formed in relation to these oceanic regions. Expected outcomes of the project include building knowledge of Australian literature and enhancing research capacity in literary oceanic studies. It will benefit scholars in literary, historical and cultural fields, contributing to current debates about Australia’s place in the world. Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180101150
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$332,202.00
Summary
Enlisting World literature. This project aims to generate new knowledge to understand relationships between national literatures and global reading patterns. It will focus on how world literature was used in the Cold War for global circulation by focussing on the English-language paperbacks produced by East German publisher Seven Seas. Expected outcomes include the first thorough history of a socialist Cold War book scheme with an international scope, drawing on rich archival sources.