‘Coexisting in the Outside Space in the Shade for the Afternoon’: Poetics of Loss and Connection in Ellen van Neerven’s Heat and Light

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Nature aliénante et nature aliénée : l'invention coloniale de la nature australienne

Les Cahiers du CEIMA, n°4, octobre 2008, "L'invention de la nature"National audienc

Review de Belinda Wheeler (ed.) A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature

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Polyphonie et résistance dans "Earth" (2001) de Bruce Pascoe (Australie)

Les Cahiers du CEIMA, n°8, décembre 2012, "Voix défendues"National audienceAnne Le Guellec-Minel cerne les contradictions constitutives du combat des indigènes australiens pour la reconnaissance, faute de mieux, de leur altérité intégrée, et montre la réussite, chez le romancier aborigène Bruce Pascoe, d’une voix romanesque épique pratiquant « l’altérité intérieure » et capable de défendre ce qui reste d’une identité effacée et non restituable, définitivement, dans son intégrité pré-coloniale

La Mémoire face à l’Histoire : Traces, effacement, réinscriptions

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Rocking the Boat on Ethnic Lit in the Boat by Nam Le

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Re-membering the Past: Phallic Agency Reclaimed in Kim Scott’s Benang

International audienceThis book is a collection of essays from the conference «Re/membering Place», held at Stendhal University from 13 to 15 October 2011. It explores the issue of «Re/membering Place» in a colonial and postcolonial context of displacement, loss, and alienation. The authors consider «re/membering» as a process of reconstruction which entails the recreation of memory, be it individual or collective, the re-appropriation of the past and of collective myths, the reshaping of identity, and their representation in literature and the arts. They tackle various forms of story-telling in fiction, autobiography, the travel narrative, the memoir, historiography as well as cinema. Further, they analyse how memory and personal testimonies serve to fill in the blanks of historical discourse, to give voice to a forgotten community, revisit historiography and question the canon of Western culture. Through the exploration of richly diverse geographies and cultures throughout the world, from the Indian subcontinent to the Atlantic landscapes of Canada and the Caribbean, and the open spaces of Africa and Australia, this collection of essays introduces the reader to the crucial identity issues and problems raised in narratives today

Strategies of Colour, Mysticism of Form in Anita Desai's In Custody

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The Gumtree in Australian Literature and Art: A Contested Emblem of Belonging

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Camping it out in the Never Never: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994)

The critical and popular success of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) helped to put the Australian film industry on the world map and made Stephan Elliott’s feature a cult film in its own right. The article explores how the aesthetics and politics of kitsch, which allow the film to balance subversion and conservatism, may have been the recipe for success. Priscilla belongs to the Australian subgenre of the “Glitter cycle” which charts the rise of ordinary nobodies to fame, affirming aesthetic tackiness against elitist good taste. Yet the film takes the consensual optimism of the glitter comedy further back to the societal and geographical margins of Australia. Leaving behind the urban gay scene, the film subversively relocates two icons of queer culture, the drag queen and the transsexual, in the sublime landscapes of the Outback that have helped forge the Australian myth of heroic masculinity. Although this queering of the myth does not do away with the hostile stereotypes traditionally projected on women and other marginalized groups, it does bring out the camp quality of the Australian sublime