Abstract Over a fifty-year period, from 1944 to 1994, Thea Astley published a number of critical writings, including essays, newspaper articles and reviews, and short reflections and meditations on her craft. Despite a renewed interest in Astley’s work, however, most critical interrogations of her oeuvre focus on her novels, and more recently her poetry. As a result, Astley’s critical writing has not been afforded the same breadth and depth of investigation as her fiction. This lacuna is troubling, since Astley’s critical works are important not only for their insight, but for what they reveal about Astley’s self-representation, and in particular the dual identity that she embodied as both a teacher and a satirist. This article argues that these dual roles emerge clearly in Astley’s essays and in fact are inextricable from many of her works. Further, the tensions between these two personae — Astley as teacher and Astley as satirist — reveal natural overlaps with her imaginative writing, and reflect her changing ideas about fiction writing, literature, and education.
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{"title":"Girl with a monkey","authors":"Kate Cantrell","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41448200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article reads Thea Astley’s final novel in the context of rhetoric about the death of Australian literature that has been a mainstay of our national culture almost since its inception. In the early 2000s, a new round of obituarists argued that the global publishing industry, critical trends and changing educational pedagogies were eroding Australia’s literary identity. Drylands, published in 1999, can be considered a slightly prescient participant in this conversation: it is subtitled A Book for the World’s Last Reader, seemingly framing the novel in a polemics of decline. My reading, however, sees the book as the product of two correlated yet combative literary projects: the attempt by its primary narrator, Janet Deakin, to write a book after what she sees as the likely death of reading and writing; and Astley’s more nuanced exploration of the role of literature in settler colonial modernity. Reading across the seven narratives that constitute the book, I argue that Drylands performs the fraught relationship between ethics and aesthetics in the context of writing about the systemic violence of the settler colonial state, questioning literary privilege, exclusivity and complicity in ways that remain relevant to debates regarding Australian literature today.
摘要本文从澳大利亚文学之死的修辞语境中解读了西娅·阿斯特利的最后一部小说。澳大利亚文学自诞生以来一直是我们民族文化的支柱。21世纪初，新一轮的讣告者认为，全球出版行业、批评趋势和不断变化的教育教学法正在侵蚀澳大利亚的文学身份。1999年出版的《旱地》(Drylands)可以被认为是这场对话中稍微有先见之明的参与者:它的副标题是《献给世界上最后的读者的书》(a Book for the World’a Last Reader)，似乎将小说置于衰落的论战中。然而，从我的阅读来看，这本书是两个相互关联但又相互冲突的文学项目的产物:它的主要叙述者珍妮特·迪肯(Janet Deakin)在她认为阅读和写作可能会消亡之后，试图写一本书;阿斯特利对文学在定居者殖民现代性中的作用进行了更为细致的探索。通过阅读全书的七个叙事，我认为《旱地》在描写移民殖民国家的系统性暴力的背景下，表现了道德与美学之间令人担忧的关系，质疑文学特权、排他性和共谋性，这些方式与今天关于澳大利亚文学的辩论仍然相关。
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{"title":"Susan Sheridan, The Fiction of Thea Astley, Cambria Australian Literature, edited by Susan Lever, New York: Cambria Press, 2016, 186 ppl., ISBN 9 7816 0497 9329, US$99.99.","authors":"L. Henry","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.35","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.35","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42667757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Script of Louis XI – ADDENDUM","authors":"P. Hanna, R. Fotheringham","doi":"10.1017/QRE.2019.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/QRE.2019.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/QRE.2019.24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42873417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Commissioners of Crown Lands were the first government officials appointed to the newly declared pastoral districts surrounding Moreton Bay after it was opened to free settlement in 1842. These officers had a significant impact on the formation of regional communities, the administration of justice and the treatment of the Indigenous people but their primary responsibility was the implementation and enforcement of government policies relating to Crown Lands. Commissioners were required to oversee pastoral leases, ensure payment of fees for pastoral and other licences and undertake expeditions to provide the New South Wales government with information regarding the nature of the land and its resources. Extracts from the original correspondence between the Commissioners and the Colonial Secretary indicate that, despite enormous challenges, early Crown Lands Commissioners were largely successful in ensuring the orderly settlement of pastoral districts. Their success however, came at the expense of the Indigenous people, who were systematically driven from their lands without compensation and with scant consideration for their welfare.
{"title":"Crown Lands Commissioners – Moreton Bay and Darling Downs, 1842–56","authors":"Margaret Shield","doi":"10.1017/QRE.2019.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/QRE.2019.7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Commissioners of Crown Lands were the first government officials appointed to the newly declared pastoral districts surrounding Moreton Bay after it was opened to free settlement in 1842. These officers had a significant impact on the formation of regional communities, the administration of justice and the treatment of the Indigenous people but their primary responsibility was the implementation and enforcement of government policies relating to Crown Lands. Commissioners were required to oversee pastoral leases, ensure payment of fees for pastoral and other licences and undertake expeditions to provide the New South Wales government with information regarding the nature of the land and its resources. Extracts from the original correspondence between the Commissioners and the Colonial Secretary indicate that, despite enormous challenges, early Crown Lands Commissioners were largely successful in ensuring the orderly settlement of pastoral districts. Their success however, came at the expense of the Indigenous people, who were systematically driven from their lands without compensation and with scant consideration for their welfare.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/QRE.2019.7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47561076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joanne Holliman (ed.), Helen Haenke at Rockton: A Creative Life, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2017, 200 pp., ISBN 9 7807 0225 4246, A$$40.","authors":"K. Ferres","doi":"10.1017/QRE.2019.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/QRE.2019.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/QRE.2019.17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47181126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clare Wright, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World, Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2018, 553 pp., ISBN 9 7819 2560 3934, A$49.99.","authors":"Marion Stell","doi":"10.1017/QRE.2019.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/QRE.2019.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/QRE.2019.18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44881789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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