Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Literature
JASAL is a scholarly journal of Australian literature.
Articles in this Journal
Sunshine, "Sultanas and Lexias": Place-Making in Sunraysia
Place-making is fundamental to the poetics of empire. A detailed exploration of the relationship between name and place in the region of Sunraysia in north-western Victoria and south-western NSW is revelatory of the “region” as a construct...
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Trails in the Ground: Speculating on the Intimate Histories of the Bunurong Coast
This paper undertakes a speculative exploration of the idiosyncratic agency of the entangled tracks encrypted throughout the region known as the Bunurong Coast in Victoria's southeast. It is a rambling yarn that creatively explores how tho...
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'Weird, Wild or Wanton': Deborah Wardle, Julienne Van Loon, Stayci Taylor, Francesca Rendle-Short, Peta Murray, David Carlin, editors. A to Z of Creative Writing Methods
Debra Adelaide reviews A to Z of Creative Writing Methods, edited by Deborah Wardle et al.
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David Carter (editor). The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
Samuel Cox reviews The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, edited by David Carter.
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Kim Wilkins, Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher. Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture
Marina Deller reviews Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture, by Kim Wilkins, Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher.
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Generational Reinvention: Neo-Marxism’s New Perspectives in Oceanic Literature –– Dougal McNeill. Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature
Marvin Gilman reviews Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature by Dougal McNeill.
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Brigid Rooney and Fiona Morrison, editors. Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction
Nathan Hobby reviews Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction, edited by Brigid Rooney and Fiona Morrison.
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Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell. Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth reviews Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthrop by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell.
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Katie Hansord. Colonial Australian Women Poets: Political Voice and Feminist Tradition
Monique Rooney reviews Colonial Australian Women Poets: Political Voice and Feminist Tradition by Katie Hansford.
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Tony Birch. Women & Children
Jane Scerri reviews Women & Children by Tony Birch.
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Ernest G. Moll. TransPacific: Collected Poems of Ernest G. Moll, edited by Alan L. Contreras.
Chris Tiffin reviews TransPacific: Collected Poems of Ernest G. Moll, edited by Alan L. Contreras.
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Writing from My Heart
This essay looks at what it really means for author Shankari Chandran to write "from the heart," blending personal stories, cultural roots, and the search for truth. Shankari shares memories, like watching her father dissect a goat, to exp...
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Steady Optimism
In this paper Associate Professor Nicholas Birns responds to Philip Mead's "Australian Literary Studies" in this issue.
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Paul Eggert and Chris Vening, editors. The Letters of Charles Harpur and His Circle
Philip Mead reviews Paul Eggert and Chris Vening, editors. The Letters of Charles Harpur and His Circle.
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