Cathal O’byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathal O’byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathal |
| FAMILY NAME | O’byrne |
| SIGNATURE | O’BYRNE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5032-6162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aboriginal Women's Life-History Writing, Settler Reading and *Not Just Black and White
In a 2019 article in The Guardian, Gomeroi poet, essayist and legal scholar Alison Whittaker declared â Blak literature is in a golden age. Our white audiences, who are majorities in both literary industry and buying power, are deep in an unseen crisis of how to deal with it.â This essay tries to understand what constitutes the crisis, how settler readers, like me, might see it and emerge from it, and what some of the stakes are. I consider the r…
A Search for Presence or a Reflection on Absence?”
This essay contributes to conversations about the ethical complexities that arise when a writer transforms a subject’s firsthand accounts into a narrative for a broad readership. It asks if the aesthetic features of Kate Grenville’s One Life: My Mother’s Story (2015) can both prioritize readers’ engagement and allow for an ethical portrayal of the mother-subject
To Unearth the Layers of Forgetting’
This article reads Kristina Olsson’s Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir (2013, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.) as a postmemorial text. The memoir centres on the moment, six years before Olsson was born, when a thirteen-month-old baby was abducted from Olsson’s mother’s arms. The article relies on Marianne Hirsch’s (2012, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press. ProQuest.…
Charlotte Bronte Goes to Confession
Charlotte Bronte's father, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, was born in Ireland on Saint Patrick's Day, 1777, at Emdale, near Rathfriland, in the County Down. His father, Charlotte's grandfather, Hugh Prunty-his Scotch Presbyterian neighbours called him Brunty-came from somewhere in the south of Ireland, but where exactly his paternal home was he could never ascertain. When he was twenty-two he made a runaway match with Alice McClorey of Ballynaskeagh, a…
To Unearth the Layers of Forgetting’
This article reads Kristina Olsson’s Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir (2013, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.) as a postmemorial text. The memoir centres on the moment, six years before Olsson was born, when a thirteen-month-old baby was abducted from Olsson’s mother’s arms. The article relies on Marianne Hirsch’s (2012, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press. ProQuest.…
Charlotte Bronte Goes to Confession
Charlotte Bronte's father, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, was born in Ireland on Saint Patrick's Day, 1777, at Emdale, near Rathfriland, in the County Down. His father, Charlotte's grandfather, Hugh Prunty-his Scotch Presbyterian neighbours called him Brunty-came from somewhere in the south of Ireland, but where exactly his paternal home was he could never ascertain. When he was twenty-two he made a runaway match with Alice McClorey of Ballynaskeagh, a…
To Unearth the Layers of Forgetting’
This article reads Kristina Olsson’s Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir (2013, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.) as a postmemorial text. The memoir centres on the moment, six years before Olsson was born, when a thirteen-month-old baby was abducted from Olsson’s mother’s arms. The article relies on Marianne Hirsch’s (2012, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press. ProQuest.…
A Search for Presence or a Reflection on Absence?”
This essay contributes to conversations about the ethical complexities that arise when a writer transforms a subject’s firsthand accounts into a narrative for a broad readership. It asks if the aesthetic features of Kate Grenville’s One Life: My Mother’s Story (2015) can both prioritize readers’ engagement and allow for an ethical portrayal of the mother-subject
Aboriginal Women's Life-History Writing, Settler Reading and *Not Just Black and White
In a 2019 article in The Guardian, Gomeroi poet, essayist and legal scholar Alison Whittaker declared â Blak literature is in a golden age. Our white audiences, who are majorities in both literary industry and buying power, are deep in an unseen crisis of how to deal with it.â This essay tries to understand what constitutes the crisis, how settler readers, like me, might see it and emerge from it, and what some of the stakes are. I consider the r…
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