Gillian Whitlock
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 968224 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gillian Whitlock |
| NOMBRES | Gillian |
| APELLIDO | Whitlock |
| FIRMA | WHITLOCK G |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6728-0305 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Indigenous Textual Cultures
As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of “native” societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands, Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were…
Rethinking the Victim
Some books must bide their time to summon a readership, and this is one. Rethinking the Victim is the first book to examine gender and violence in Australian literature, and it makes a powerful claim: that literary texts by Australian women writers bring a unique understanding to this social problem. In this moment, when insidious intimate violence is recognized as a social justice issue, and a humanitarian issue, Brewster and Kossew’s study is a…
Desperation for Life”
A conservative analysis of extinctions of other-than-human species published in 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America estimates that “as much a
Implicated Subjects
Life
Two images locate this special issue. The first is the portrait on the cover of “Life Writing in the Anthropocene,” from Anna Laurent’s immersive installation Flora: Exploration to Extinction. This
No Friend but the Mountains
This essay turns to the paratexts of No Friend but the Mountains, and the question of how this book should be read in these margins of the text. Focusing on both peritexts and epitexts—Richard Flanagan’s “Foreword,” Omid Tofighian’s “Translator’s Tale” and “Reflections,” and a review of the novel by J. M. Coetzee, “Australia’s Shame”—it examines the ethical challenge to Australian readers at this threshold of interpretation, and asks what respons…
Shared Selves
Reviewed by: Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism by Suzanne Bost Gillian Whitlock (bio) Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism Suzanne Bost U of Illinois P, 2019, 204 pp. ISBN 9780252084621, $25.00 paperback. Shared Selves introduces some new contexts, writing, and insights into our thinking on posthuman lives. By bringing Latinx memoir and literature more generally into debates about posth…
Sorry Business
Gail Jones explains, "sorry business" refers to the work of mourning, and with ceremonial grief, that is implicitly and explicitly shared. She reads sorry-in-the-sky in this way, as a frail yet insistent communication, an entanglement of apology and mourning. In Sorry , her novel that engages with the ethics of reconciliation and reflects on discourses of apology in Australia, Gail Jones reflects not only on the voices of the Stolen Generations t…
Salvage
The 'Locating Lives' conference in Adelaide in December 2015 included two off-campus expeditions in its programme: a visit to the Adelaide Migration Museum, and a beach walk to Glenelg. Given the unique oceanic imaginary attached to the Asia Pacific region, museums, beaches and boats are key sites for locating life narratives here. A series of life narratives that feature memories of child migration to Australia in the early sixties are featured …
Joe Sacco’s Australian Story
Although Joe Sacco is frequently present in the frame of his comics journalism, as a witness, listener and scribe, he rarely attaches his own autobiographical experience to these representations of self. Recently some more detailed biographical detail about Joe Sacco’s own life story has begun to emerge in the frames of his comics, particularly in his work on refugees and asylum seekers. One of the least significant and little known facts about J…
An Indian Ocean Story
Elleke Boehmer’s novel begins with a short prelude, ‘Sheet’. Ella is in The Hague, in the apartment she has inherited from her mother. In South Africa, her life is at risk—a state of emergency has
Keloid Geography
Keloid GeographyThe Year in Australia Gillian Whitlock (bio) It isn't often that the Brisbane Writers' Festival is written up in The New Yorker and the New York Times, but in September 2016 it was, and the repercussions provoked readings and thoughts about life writing, women's writing, appropriation, and race throughout this past year. The event that triggered this provocation was the opening keynote speech by American novelist Lionel Shriver, a…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australianauthor who continues to make a contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles FranklinAward, for his novels Benang (in 2000) and That Dead…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the …
Afterword
It is no surprise that Bart Moore-Gilbert was part of the project that has generated this special issue of Life Writing on ‘After Empire’, and this Afterword draws together his criticism on postcol
Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an ExhibitionThe Year in Australia Gillian Whitlock (bio) PORTRAITURE Each July the Archibald Prize (aka the “Archie”) triggers debates about biographical representation here in Australia, and in a good year 140,000 visitors go to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney between July and October to view this annual celebration of the portrait as a work of art.1 As Cynthia Freeland points out in her philosophical approach to portra…
Postcolonial Life Narratives
The 'Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures' series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. 'Postcolonial life narrative' draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in part…
The Hospitality of Cyberspace
This article focuses on maritime voyages filmed and narrated by asylum seekers, where they become "produsers" of their own testimonial narratives that are then disseminated through both conventional and new media. Social media offers new venues and opportunities for the dissemination of testimony generated by the asylum seekers, from within the boats, trucks, and planes that transport them. Asylum seekers are not citizens seeking democracy in the…
Post-ing Lives
This special issue of Biography may seem exotic. It engages with a series of concepts that are unusual in studies of life narrative: beginning with zoegraphy and ending with the anthropocene. It turns to scenes of auto/biographical expression that may seem bizarre: animalographies, bioart, narratives of chronic pain, autobiogeography. It embraces creatures, critters, produsers, and avatars. Its critical canon is not traditionally associated with …
Laura J. Beard. Acts of Narrative Resistance
Laura Beard's study of women's autobiography in South America and Canada is a new volume of the cross-institutional American Literatures Initiative. It brings together a series of essays on the Sou
Intimate Ephemera
Books
Soft Weapons
Azar Nafisi s Reading Lolita in Tehran, Marjane Satrapi s comics, and Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax s Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft Weapons, Gillian Whit…
Reading Autobiography Now. An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
Staging Asylum, Again (revised edition)/Performance, Resistance and Refugees
Post-ing Lives
This special issue of Biography may seem exotic. It engages with a series of concepts that are unusual in studies of life narrative: beginning with zoegraphy and ending with the anthropocene. It turns to scenes of auto/biographical expression that may seem bizarre: animalographies, bioart, narratives of chronic pain, autobiogeography. It embraces creatures, critters, produsers, and avatars. Its critical canon is not traditionally associated with …
Life
Two images locate this special issue. The first is the portrait on the cover of “Life Writing in the Anthropocene,” from Anna Laurent’s immersive installation Flora: Exploration to Extinction. This
Witnessing, Trauma and Social Suffering
This special issue—Witnessing, Trauma and Social Suffering: Feminist Perspectives—emerged from a conference that Rosanne Kennedy and Gillian Whitlock convened at the Australian National University in April 2009. The conference brought together scholars and critics from a range of disciplines, with the aim of conceptualising trauma, suffering, and witnessing beyond the paradigm of trauma theory that had become dominant, particularly in the humanit…
In the Second Person
My story is a gift. If I give you a gift and you accept that gift, then you don't go and throw that gift in the waste basket. You do something with it. --Assembly of First Nations 162 1997: A Bitter Wind In the winter of 1997 the Australian biographer and critic Drusilla Modjeska was invited to give the formal after-dinner speech at the Premier's literary awards in Sydney. This was designed to be a celebratory occasion, "in praise of good writing…
Implicated Subjects
The Skin of the Burqa
The "war on terror" has been associated with an extraordinary proliferation of Afghan autoethnographies in the Western marketplace. In this article, various implications and connotations of this are read to explore the ethical engagements of life narrative in these times
Everything Is out of Place
The Bush, the Barrack-Yard and the Clearing
Letters from Nauru
In the recent past, collection of letters exchanged between asylum seekers held as part of the Pacific Solution and their advocates on the Australian mainland have begun to enter the archives and become available to scholarly work. This article considers the Burnside/Durham collection of letters from Nauru recently acquired as part of the Fryer collection at the University of Queensland. It uses Stanley's Stanley, Liz. 2004. ‘The epistolarium: on…
Self-Regarding Art
This Introduction to the Biography Special Issue on "Autographics" maps a field of texts and critical practices which are emerging in the rapidly changing visual and textual cultures of autobiography. Beginning with a survey of current thinking about the comics, it argues for autographic criticism as a practice that engages with new modes and media, such as graffiti and online social networking, where autobiographical narrative proliferates throu…
Reading Autobiography Now. An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
Salvage
The 'Locating Lives' conference in Adelaide in December 2015 included two off-campus expeditions in its programme: a visit to the Adelaide Migration Museum, and a beach walk to Glenelg. Given the unique oceanic imaginary attached to the Asia Pacific region, museums, beaches and boats are key sites for locating life narratives here. A series of life narratives that feature memories of child migration to Australia in the early sixties are featured …
Joe Sacco’s Australian Story
Although Joe Sacco is frequently present in the frame of his comics journalism, as a witness, listener and scribe, he rarely attaches his own autobiographical experience to these representations of self. Recently some more detailed biographical detail about Joe Sacco’s own life story has begun to emerge in the frames of his comics, particularly in his work on refugees and asylum seekers. One of the least significant and little known facts about J…
Afterword
It is no surprise that Bart Moore-Gilbert was part of the project that has generated this special issue of Life Writing on ‘After Empire’, and this Afterword draws together his criticism on postcol
The Hospitality of Cyberspace
This article focuses on maritime voyages filmed and narrated by asylum seekers, where they become "produsers" of their own testimonial narratives that are then disseminated through both conventional and new media. Social media offers new venues and opportunities for the dissemination of testimony generated by the asylum seekers, from within the boats, trucks, and planes that transport them. Asylum seekers are not citizens seeking democracy in the…
Remediating Gorilla Girl
Dian Fossey and the gorillas remain familiar figures in the global public sphere. But how do their life stories relate to the ongoing presence of mourning and violence in central Africa now? This essay considers feminist engagements with the "distant suffering" of victims of rape warfare at this unique contact zone where species meet
Disciplining the Child
(2004). Disciplining the Child: Recent British Academic Memoir. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 46-58
Tainted Testimony
we might read Forbidden Love in terms of a set of conditions that have allowed stories of abuse, trauma and exploitation to drive the memoir boom of the recent past. However Khouri's book is now labelled as tainted testimony, and her reputation as an authoritative autobiographer and biographer is lostâ the contract for the sequel has been rescinded by Random House. On what basis? After all, published life narratives are not held to account by jur…
A.G. Stephens
A. G. Stephens came to be identified as the focal figure of this nationalistic literary movement. A closer examination of 'The Red Page' itself shows this to be a myth, a fallacy based not on fact but on reputation. Although Stephens directed and brought to fruition much of the indigenous literary talent it does not necessarily follow that he was a nationalist; in fact he was supremely aware of the dangers of such a policy to the very concept of …
The Bush, the Barrack-Yard and the Clearing
Everything Is out of Place
Recent Australian Autobiography
In the Epilogue to Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958 (1990) Dorothy Hewett returns to her 'first house', the house of childhood at Lambton Downs. The home paddock is littered with unused machinery, loose roofing iron flaps up and down over the broken boards on the verandah: 'nothing left to show that once a family worked and loved and quarrelled here, planted orchards, gardens and crops, raised animals and children, grew angry, sentimental, p…
New Directions in Australian Literary Studies
Editorâ s note: These three articles â are meant to stimulate further debate on the current state and future direction of studies in Australian literature.â
Australian Literature
In the conclusion to her germinal study of sex, race and nation in Australian women's writing, Along the Faultlines (1995), Susan Sheridan questions the prevalent orientations of Australian and literary cultural studies. In particular she draws attention to its 'fixed and known directions' in understandings of cultural nationalism. In that book, and elsewhere, Sheridan's work explores the relationship between women writers as makers of cultural m…
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances …
Editing Ruthie
The Intimate Empire
Autobiography and slavery - believing in the History of Mary Prince settler subjects travelling in memory of slavery Kenya - the land that never was autobiography and resistance in memory of the colonial child
Shameful Autobiographies
Margo V. Perkins. Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000. 161 pp. ISBN 1-578-06264-0, $18.00
Shameful Autobiographies
Rosamund Dalziell. Shameful Autobiographies: Shame in Contemporary Australian Autobiographies and Culture. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1999. 302 pp. ISBN 0-522-8460-5, $29.95
In the Second Person
My story is a gift. If I give you a gift and you accept that gift, then you don't go and throw that gift in the waste basket. You do something with it. --Assembly of First Nations 162 1997: A Bitter Wind In the winter of 1997 the Australian biographer and critic Drusilla Modjeska was invited to give the formal after-dinner speech at the Premier's literary awards in Sydney. This was designed to be a celebratory occasion, "in praise of good writing…
Merry Christmas, Mary Prince
Like many critics and compulsive readers of biography and autobiography, I have a ghost—a figure who shadows me, and who shapes much of my thinking and writing about autobiography. Basically, it is Mary Prince who keeps me honest. She stops me taking things for granted, and she reminds me always to ask how autobiographical narratives get heard, recorded, published, and read, and to remember how passionate and fickle the attention of the reading p…
Consuming Passions
Gillian Whitlock, Consuming Passions: Reconciliation in Women's Intellectual Memoir, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 23, No. 1, Where in the World Is Transnational Feminism? (Spring, 2004), pp. 13-28
Disciplining the Child
(2004). Disciplining the Child: Recent British Academic Memoir. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 46-58
Tainted Testimony
we might read Forbidden Love in terms of a set of conditions that have allowed stories of abuse, trauma and exploitation to drive the memoir boom of the recent past. However Khouri's book is now labelled as tainted testimony, and her reputation as an authoritative autobiographer and biographer is lostâ the contract for the sequel has been rescinded by Random House. On what basis? After all, published life narratives are not held to account by jur…
The Skin of the Burqa
The "war on terror" has been associated with an extraordinary proliferation of Afghan autoethnographies in the Western marketplace. In this article, various implications and connotations of this are read to explore the ethical engagements of life narrative in these times
Rethinking Orientalism
Reviewed by: Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem Gillian Whitlock (bio) Reina Lewis . Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2004. 297 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3543-3, $29.95. In this book Reina Lewis focuses on a group of women writers whose travel accounts, memoirs, and fictions offer a non-Western engagement with the stereotypes of the Oriental woman. As Lewis reminds us at the ou…
Soft Weapons
Letters from Nauru
In the recent past, collection of letters exchanged between asylum seekers held as part of the Pacific Solution and their advocates on the Australian mainland have begun to enter the archives and become available to scholarly work. This article considers the Burnside/Durham collection of letters from Nauru recently acquired as part of the Fryer collection at the University of Queensland. It uses Stanley's Stanley, Liz. 2004. ‘The epistolarium: on…
Trauma in the Twenty-First Century
In her genealogical approach to the study of trauma, Ruth Leys situates the most recent turn to trauma studies across a range of disciplines and in relation to the waxing and waning of interest in
Self-Regarding Art
This Introduction to the Biography Special Issue on "Autographics" maps a field of texts and critical practices which are emerging in the rapidly changing visual and textual cultures of autobiography. Beginning with a survey of current thinking about the comics, it argues for autographic criticism as a practice that engages with new modes and media, such as graffiti and online social networking, where autobiographical narrative proliferates throu…
Remediating Gorilla Girl
Dian Fossey and the gorillas remain familiar figures in the global public sphere. But how do their life stories relate to the ongoing presence of mourning and violence in central Africa now? This essay considers feminist engagements with the "distant suffering" of victims of rape warfare at this unique contact zone where species meet
Laura J. Beard. Acts of Narrative Resistance
Laura Beard's study of women's autobiography in South America and Canada is a new volume of the cross-institutional American Literatures Initiative. It brings together a series of essays on the Sou
Intimate Ephemera
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