Sue Kossew
Biographic Data
| ID | 1677054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Kossew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Kossew |
| SIGNATURE | KOSSEW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9533-012X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
It’s Just Some Guy, Not a Monster’
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
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…
Reading Coetzee's Women
This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world's most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central issue of how Coetzee's texts address the 'woman question'. There is a focus on Coetzee's representation of women, engagement with women writers and the ethics of what has been termed his 'ventriloq…
Re-framing South African Life Narratives
and the National Portrait Gallery in
Cross-Cultural Conversations
Antjie Krog's Begging to be Black, published in 2009, uses the word ‘conversation’ a number of times in relation to its author's personal, philosophical and political interactions with people and texts. In the author's note that appears at the beginning of the text, she refers to the book's ‘many conversations’ and to the text itself as an attempt to understand the ‘long conversation’ between black and white in South Africa. This essay argues tha…
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader
Lighting Dark Places
This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Grenville, one of Australia’s most important contemporary writers. Grenville has been acclaimed for her novels, winning numerous national and international prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her novels are marked by sharp observations of outsider figures who are often under pressure to conform to society’s norms. More rece…
Re-Reading the Past
As representations of particular moments in history, monuments provide useful indices for processes of remembering and forgetting that accompany ‘regime change’. Their paradoxical representational instability and their exposure to multiple readings and counter-readings over time make monuments fascinating material for literary investigations of the unstable nature of representation itself. Both Ivan Vladislavić and Zoë Wicomb have used the trope …
Voicing the “Great Australian Silence„
This article examines the competing narratives of settlement in Kate Grenville's 2005 novel, The Secret River. On the one hand are Aboriginal stories of violent encounters with settlers that are transmitted orally and are unwritten and, on the other, are those European historical accounts that seek to legitimate Australian settlement. In this novel, Grenville is trying to reconcile her own convict ancestor's implication in acts of Indigenous disp…
Traditions in transit
Giving Voice
This essay examines André P. Brink's two most recent novels, The Other Side of Silence (2002) and Before I Forget (2004), in terms of their voicing of silence and the rewriting of history and memory. Each has a theme familiar to Brink's readers - an historical story of colonial violence and violation avenged; and the recounting by an older writer of his "last love", respectively - and each is mediated by a male narrator. Both narrators, though, d…
Writing Woman, Writing Place
Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity has been constructed through national stereotypes and representations. This book describes and analyses some contemporary responses to 'writing woman, w…
Beyond the national
(2003). Beyond the national: exile and belonging in Nadine Gordimer's The pickup. Scrutiny2: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 21-26
The Politics of Shame and Redemption in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
In both J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace (1999) and André Brink's The Rights of Desire (2000), a middle-aged or older male protagonist (Coetzee's David Lurie is 52; Brink's Ruben Olivier is 65) has what might be seen as a final fling (or, in David Lurie's Romantic version, "a last leap of the flame of sense before it goes out"—27) via a relationship with a much younger woman—in both cases, a university student—and faces life-ch…
Reinventing history; reimagining the novel
André Brink's most recent novel. Imaginings of Sand (1996b), enters into the politics of the novel in a number of important ways. His ideas of a post‐apartheid literature includes the need to “address the silences of the past” and to appropriate this past/history through “imaginative understanding” in the form of fiction. The implications of this link between the stories of fiction and those of history, and of his taking on the issue of the silen…
Re-Reading the Past
As representations of particular moments in history, monuments provide useful indices for processes of remembering and forgetting that accompany ‘regime change’. Their paradoxical representational instability and their exposure to multiple readings and counter-readings over time make monuments fascinating material for literary investigations of the unstable nature of representation itself. Both Ivan Vladislavić and Zoë Wicomb have used the trope …
Voicing the “Great Australian Silence„
This article examines the competing narratives of settlement in Kate Grenville's 2005 novel, The Secret River. On the one hand are Aboriginal stories of violent encounters with settlers that are transmitted orally and are unwritten and, on the other, are those European historical accounts that seek to legitimate Australian settlement. In this novel, Grenville is trying to reconcile her own convict ancestor's implication in acts of Indigenous disp…
Re-framing South African Life Narratives
and the National Portrait Gallery in
Cross-Cultural Conversations
Antjie Krog's Begging to be Black, published in 2009, uses the word ‘conversation’ a number of times in relation to its author's personal, philosophical and political interactions with people and texts. In the author's note that appears at the beginning of the text, she refers to the book's ‘many conversations’ and to the text itself as an attempt to understand the ‘long conversation’ between black and white in South Africa. This essay argues tha…
Beyond the national
(2003). Beyond the national: exile and belonging in Nadine Gordimer's The pickup. Scrutiny2: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 21-26
Reinventing history; reimagining the novel
André Brink's most recent novel. Imaginings of Sand (1996b), enters into the politics of the novel in a number of important ways. His ideas of a post‐apartheid literature includes the need to “address the silences of the past” and to appropriate this past/history through “imaginative understanding” in the form of fiction. The implications of this link between the stories of fiction and those of history, and of his taking on the issue of the silen…
Beyond the national
(2003). Beyond the national: exile and belonging in Nadine Gordimer's The pickup. Scrutiny2: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 21-26
The Politics of Shame and Redemption in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
In both J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace (1999) and André Brink's The Rights of Desire (2000), a middle-aged or older male protagonist (Coetzee's David Lurie is 52; Brink's Ruben Olivier is 65) has what might be seen as a final fling (or, in David Lurie's Romantic version, "a last leap of the flame of sense before it goes out"—27) via a relationship with a much younger woman—in both cases, a university student—and faces life-ch…
Writing Woman, Writing Place
Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity has been constructed through national stereotypes and representations. This book describes and analyses some contemporary responses to 'writing woman, w…
Giving Voice
This essay examines André P. Brink's two most recent novels, The Other Side of Silence (2002) and Before I Forget (2004), in terms of their voicing of silence and the rewriting of history and memory. Each has a theme familiar to Brink's readers - an historical story of colonial violence and violation avenged; and the recounting by an older writer of his "last love", respectively - and each is mediated by a male narrator. Both narrators, though, d…
Voicing the “Great Australian Silence„
This article examines the competing narratives of settlement in Kate Grenville's 2005 novel, The Secret River. On the one hand are Aboriginal stories of violent encounters with settlers that are transmitted orally and are unwritten and, on the other, are those European historical accounts that seek to legitimate Australian settlement. In this novel, Grenville is trying to reconcile her own convict ancestor's implication in acts of Indigenous disp…
Traditions in transit
Lighting Dark Places
This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Grenville, one of Australia’s most important contemporary writers. Grenville has been acclaimed for her novels, winning numerous national and international prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her novels are marked by sharp observations of outsider figures who are often under pressure to conform to society’s norms. More rece…
Re-Reading the Past
As representations of particular moments in history, monuments provide useful indices for processes of remembering and forgetting that accompany ‘regime change’. Their paradoxical representational instability and their exposure to multiple readings and counter-readings over time make monuments fascinating material for literary investigations of the unstable nature of representation itself. Both Ivan Vladislavić and Zoë Wicomb have used the trope …
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader
Re-framing South African Life Narratives
and the National Portrait Gallery in
Cross-Cultural Conversations
Antjie Krog's Begging to be Black, published in 2009, uses the word ‘conversation’ a number of times in relation to its author's personal, philosophical and political interactions with people and texts. In the author's note that appears at the beginning of the text, she refers to the book's ‘many conversations’ and to the text itself as an attempt to understand the ‘long conversation’ between black and white in South Africa. This essay argues tha…
Rethinking the Victim
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…
Reading Coetzee's Women
This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world's most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central issue of how Coetzee's texts address the 'woman question'. There is a focus on Coetzee's representation of women, engagement with women writers and the ethics of what has been termed his 'ventriloq…
It’s Just Some Guy, Not a Monster’
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…
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