Anne Brewster
Biographic Data
| ID | 140665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Brewster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewster |
| SIGNATURE | BREWSTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2308-3593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diasporic Memoir and Translocal Histories of War and Gendered Violence: Amani Haydar's The Mother Wound
It’s Just Some Guy, Not a Monster’: Gendered Violence in Emily Maguire’s Recent Novels
Emily Maguire is a Sydney-based author who has written six novels, three non-fiction books and numerous articles on feminism, culture and literature. Her early novels Taming the Beast (2004) and The Gospel According to Luke (2006) were both awarded Special Commendations in the Kathleen Mitchell Awards. Smoke in the Room (2009) and Fishing for Tigers (2012) were followed by the two more recent novels that have had the most impact: An Isolated In…
Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing
This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women’s agencies. In d…
Nadoc and the National Aborigines Day in Sydney, 1957–67
This article presents an account of the events organised in Sydney by the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC) in its first decade, 1957-67. While committees operated in other states, the NADOC in New South Wales was the most prominent in those years. 1 The significance of NADOC, or NAIDOC as it is has been known since the 1970s, is evident in the organisation's survival. It has developed into Australia's largest annual celebratio…
Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation
Alice Pung’s postmemoir of the after-effects of political violence maps a discursive trajectory from (1) her father’s survivor memory of the Cambodian genocide, to (2) her own postmemory as a second-generation Asian-Australian, to (3) the latter’s remediation as social memory within the Australian (trans)national imaginary. Hirsch describes the family as ‘the privileged site of the memorial transmission’ of trauma. In Her Father’s Daughter, Pung …
Interview with Kerry Reed-Gilbert
This interview ranges across issues to do with gender and race. It addresses topics such as gendered violence, political activism and Aboriginal identity. Reed-Gilbert talks about her relationship with her father Kevin Gilbert and his work and legacy
Negotiations of Violence and Anger in Aboriginal Novelist Melissa Lucashenko's Hard Yards
This article analyzes a young Aboriginal man’s search to belong and the triangulated violence that complicates his relationship with his white father and the young men of the Aboriginal family that he seeks to join. It investigates how Roo and the young Aboriginal men struggle against the systemic racialized differentiation and segregation of white and black subjects and bodies. Roo, and the Aboriginal family into which he is eventually incorpora…
Strangeness, Magic, Writing
the house with the light burns all night. it seems to be empty: she never hears or sees anyone coming in or out of the door. she never sees anyone through the window-not even a flicker of movement. but every night the light is on and it stays on. the curtain is drawn so she has no idea of the occupants. but one day she notices that the blinds are up and the window open. she is looking onto a large bed with bright red cushions. that is the first a…
Can You Anchor a Shimmering Nation State via Regional Indigenous Roots? Kim Scott talks to Anne Brewster about That Deadman Dance
This interview focuses mainly on Kim Scott's new novel That Deadman Dance which won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asian and Pacific region) and the Miles Franklin Award. The topics of conversation include Scott's involvement in the Noongar language project (and the relationship of this project to the novel), the novel itself, the challenges of writing in English, the resistance paradigm and indigenous sovereignty and national…
Indigenous Sovereignty and the Crisis of Whiteness in Alexis Wright’s *Carpenteria
Discusses Wright's 'foregrounding of whiteness as an object of critique'. 'Carpentaria breaks new ground by making whiteness one of its main subjects and by its sustained, incisive delineation of the internal contradictions of the category. Wright investigates the unstable affects that arise from the contradiction between the dependence of the category on its binary (the racialised other), on the one hand, and its putative coherence and authority…
Indigenous Sovereignty in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton
In this essay, I examine the ways in which Moreton's literary oeuvre figures Indigeneity through the trope of sovereignty while also foregrounding the gendered nature of Indigenous subjectivity' (108)
Humour and the defamiliarization of whiteness in the short fiction of Australian indigenous writer Alf Taylor
This article investigates how critical whiteness theory might complement the work of postcolonial studies to reconceptualize and reorient our study of Australian indigenous literature. Based on the premise that reading is an intercultural process in which raced and non‐raced identities are negotiated, it examines how the act of reading indigenous texts constitutes an intercultural encounter for the white reader. The work of a Western Australian N…
Brokering cross-racial feminism: Reading indigenous Australian poet Lisa Bellear
In this article I take a poem by Lisa Bellear as a starting point for theorizing the possibility of a renovated feminism. I argue that the rhetorical questioning of the poem performs a mode of intersubjectivity in which the addressee/reader reflects upon their whiteness. The poem drives directly into the dense affect that saturates the troubled zone of cross-racial relations in contemporary Australia. If this zone is characterized by white anger …
We Four: Fictocriticism Again
The Poetics of Memory
the city in a deep sleep. in a kind of paralysis. in a dream. her head slipped under the water but she kept on dreaming. she didn't need oxygen. dreaming was enough. time passed her by. she was han
Oodgeroo: Orator, Poet, Storyteller
The past and history have been foregrounded in Aboriginal consciousness as issues that demand attention whereas the history of white Australia has often been taken for granted. Because they are a minority group Aboriginal people's history was, until the 1960s, invisible within the white community. As Klaus Neumann has observed (284), poetry may function as history, and in this article I examine in Oodgeroo Noonuccal's writing the emergence into p…
The Poetics of Memory
the city in a deep sleep. in a kind of paralysis. in a dream. her head slipped under the water but she kept on dreaming. she didn't need oxygen. dreaming was enough. time passed her by. she was han
Humour and the defamiliarization of whiteness in the short fiction of Australian indigenous writer Alf Taylor
This article investigates how critical whiteness theory might complement the work of postcolonial studies to reconceptualize and reorient our study of Australian indigenous literature. Based on the premise that reading is an intercultural process in which raced and non‐raced identities are negotiated, it examines how the act of reading indigenous texts constitutes an intercultural encounter for the white reader. The work of a Western Australian N…
We Four: Fictocriticism Again
Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation
Alice Pung’s postmemoir of the after-effects of political violence maps a discursive trajectory from (1) her father’s survivor memory of the Cambodian genocide, to (2) her own postmemory as a second-generation Asian-Australian, to (3) the latter’s remediation as social memory within the Australian (trans)national imaginary. Hirsch describes the family as ‘the privileged site of the memorial transmission’ of trauma. In Her Father’s Daughter, Pung …
Indigenous Sovereignty in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton
In this essay, I examine the ways in which Moreton's literary oeuvre figures Indigeneity through the trope of sovereignty while also foregrounding the gendered nature of Indigenous subjectivity' (108)
Brokering cross-racial feminism: Reading indigenous Australian poet Lisa Bellear
In this article I take a poem by Lisa Bellear as a starting point for theorizing the possibility of a renovated feminism. I argue that the rhetorical questioning of the poem performs a mode of intersubjectivity in which the addressee/reader reflects upon their whiteness. The poem drives directly into the dense affect that saturates the troubled zone of cross-racial relations in contemporary Australia. If this zone is characterized by white anger …
Oodgeroo: Orator, Poet, Storyteller
The past and history have been foregrounded in Aboriginal consciousness as issues that demand attention whereas the history of white Australia has often been taken for granted. Because they are a minority group Aboriginal people's history was, until the 1960s, invisible within the white community. As Klaus Neumann has observed (284), poetry may function as history, and in this article I examine in Oodgeroo Noonuccal's writing the emergence into p…
We Four: Fictocriticism Again
The Poetics of Memory
the city in a deep sleep. in a kind of paralysis. in a dream. her head slipped under the water but she kept on dreaming. she didn't need oxygen. dreaming was enough. time passed her by. she was han
Brokering cross-racial feminism: Reading indigenous Australian poet Lisa Bellear
In this article I take a poem by Lisa Bellear as a starting point for theorizing the possibility of a renovated feminism. I argue that the rhetorical questioning of the poem performs a mode of intersubjectivity in which the addressee/reader reflects upon their whiteness. The poem drives directly into the dense affect that saturates the troubled zone of cross-racial relations in contemporary Australia. If this zone is characterized by white anger …
Humour and the defamiliarization of whiteness in the short fiction of Australian indigenous writer Alf Taylor
This article investigates how critical whiteness theory might complement the work of postcolonial studies to reconceptualize and reorient our study of Australian indigenous literature. Based on the premise that reading is an intercultural process in which raced and non‐raced identities are negotiated, it examines how the act of reading indigenous texts constitutes an intercultural encounter for the white reader. The work of a Western Australian N…
Indigenous Sovereignty in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton
In this essay, I examine the ways in which Moreton's literary oeuvre figures Indigeneity through the trope of sovereignty while also foregrounding the gendered nature of Indigenous subjectivity' (108)
Indigenous Sovereignty and the Crisis of Whiteness in Alexis Wright’s *Carpenteria
Discusses Wright's 'foregrounding of whiteness as an object of critique'. 'Carpentaria breaks new ground by making whiteness one of its main subjects and by its sustained, incisive delineation of the internal contradictions of the category. Wright investigates the unstable affects that arise from the contradiction between the dependence of the category on its binary (the racialised other), on the one hand, and its putative coherence and authority…
Can You Anchor a Shimmering Nation State via Regional Indigenous Roots? Kim Scott talks to Anne Brewster about That Deadman Dance
This interview focuses mainly on Kim Scott's new novel That Deadman Dance which won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asian and Pacific region) and the Miles Franklin Award. The topics of conversation include Scott's involvement in the Noongar language project (and the relationship of this project to the novel), the novel itself, the challenges of writing in English, the resistance paradigm and indigenous sovereignty and national…
Strangeness, Magic, Writing
the house with the light burns all night. it seems to be empty: she never hears or sees anyone coming in or out of the door. she never sees anyone through the window-not even a flicker of movement. but every night the light is on and it stays on. the curtain is drawn so she has no idea of the occupants. but one day she notices that the blinds are up and the window open. she is looking onto a large bed with bright red cushions. that is the first a…
Negotiations of Violence and Anger in Aboriginal Novelist Melissa Lucashenko's Hard Yards
This article analyzes a young Aboriginal man’s search to belong and the triangulated violence that complicates his relationship with his white father and the young men of the Aboriginal family that he seeks to join. It investigates how Roo and the young Aboriginal men struggle against the systemic racialized differentiation and segregation of white and black subjects and bodies. Roo, and the Aboriginal family into which he is eventually incorpora…
Interview with Kerry Reed-Gilbert
This interview ranges across issues to do with gender and race. It addresses topics such as gendered violence, political activism and Aboriginal identity. Reed-Gilbert talks about her relationship with her father Kevin Gilbert and his work and legacy
Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation
Alice Pung’s postmemoir of the after-effects of political violence maps a discursive trajectory from (1) her father’s survivor memory of the Cambodian genocide, to (2) her own postmemory as a second-generation Asian-Australian, to (3) the latter’s remediation as social memory within the Australian (trans)national imaginary. Hirsch describes the family as ‘the privileged site of the memorial transmission’ of trauma. In Her Father’s Daughter, Pung …
Nadoc and the National Aborigines Day in Sydney, 1957–67
This article presents an account of the events organised in Sydney by the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC) in its first decade, 1957-67. While committees operated in other states, the NADOC in New South Wales was the most prominent in those years. 1 The significance of NADOC, or NAIDOC as it is has been known since the 1970s, is evident in the organisation's survival. It has developed into Australia's largest annual celebratio…
Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing
This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women’s agencies. In d…
It’s Just Some Guy, Not a Monster’: Gendered Violence in Emily Maguire’s Recent Novels
Emily Maguire is a Sydney-based author who has written six novels, three non-fiction books and numerous articles on feminism, culture and literature. Her early novels Taming the Beast (2004) and The Gospel According to Luke (2006) were both awarded Special Commendations in the Kathleen Mitchell Awards. Smoke in the Room (2009) and Fishing for Tigers (2012) were followed by the two more recent novels that have had the most impact: An Isolated In…
Diasporic Memoir and Translocal Histories of War and Gendered Violence: Amani Haydar's The Mother Wound
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