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  • Moʻolelo

    The Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge

    Series series Hawai‘inuiākea
    An essential contribution to contemporary Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholarship, Moʻolelo: The Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge elevates our understanding of the importance of language and narrative to cultural revitalization. Moʻolelo preserve the words, phrases, sentences, idioms, proverbs, and poetry that define Kānaka Maoli. Encompassing narratives, literature, histories, and traditions, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Nada Menos que Todo un Hombre

    Nada Menos que Todo un Hombre, escrito por Miguel de Unamuno, es un libro que explora la existencia y la individualidad en contraste con la sociedad. A través de la reflexión y la filosofía, Unamuno analiza los conflictos internos del hombre moderno y su búsqueda de significado y espiritualidad. Este libro invita al lector a cuestionar y reflexionar sobre los dilemas de la vida y la condición ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Native Son

    The Writer's Memoir

    by Witi Ihimaera ...
    This is the second volume of memoir by this remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 1972, he is 28, his first book is about to be published, and he has every reason to kick up his heels. But behind that joyful smile, and the image of a writer footing it in the Pakeha world, there is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Navigating CHamoru Poetry

    Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization

    Series series Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary methodology called “wayreading” to navigate the complex relationship between ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008

    Market Fictions

    by Jennifer Lawn ...
    Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that postcolonial literary studies needs to take more account of the way in which the new configuration ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature

    Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness

    Series series Routledge Focus on Literature
    This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic writing, bestsellers, neurodivergence fiction, emerging as well as high- profile writers, literary hoaxes and controversies, book culture, and LGBTIQA+ authors, to name a few. It eclectically brings ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry

    Edited by Dan Disney, Matthew Hall ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
    This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here—“Indigeneities”; “Political Landscapes”; “Space, Place, Materiality”; “Revising an Australian Mythos”—models how poetic communities in Australia continue to grow in alliance toward certain constellated ideas. Exploring the ethics ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark

    In the decades after World War II, the literary scene in Australia flourished: local writers garnered international renown and local publishers sought and produced more Australian books. The traditional view of this postwar period is of successful male writers, with women still confined to the domestic sphere. In Nine Lives, Susan Sheridan rewrites the pages of history to foreground the women ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Document

    Layli Long Soldier meets Han Kang’s The White Book in an elegy for a friend and collaborator, drawing on poetic forms in its resistance to empire.Anwen Crawford has established herself as a leading Australian writer and cultural critic, writing music criticism for The Monthly and previously for The New Yorker.Her book Live Through This, on the Hole album of the same title, was named by Pitchfork ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Beverley Farmer

    Writers on Writers

    Series series Writers on Writers
    Across Farmer’s works, there has always been an attraction to those beings who occupy two realms … Once one has lived elsewhere, lived differently, it doesn’t matter whether she stays to forge a new life or turns back towards the old, or moves on once again; there will always be the shadow, the after-image, of the life not lived.Beverley Farmer’s writing reflects on restlessness, desire and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On David Malouf

    Writers on Writers

    by Nam Le ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese writer (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the very first order … The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its images. Every other novel claims to be written in “poetic prose”; the real thing, when you come across it, is actually shocking.Nam Le takes the reader on a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Helen Garner

    Writers on Writers

    by Sean O'Beirne ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    A brilliant essay by one of Australia’s most exciting literary talents, which offers new insights into Garner’s entire body of work and her life as a writer.What I love in Helen Garner’s writing is a particular kind of closeness to self, the good, greedy, mistaken, emotional, fierce, sceptical, changing and disrupting self. Garner makes so much from what seems to be just her individual sense, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Kim Scott

    Writers on Writers

    by Tony Birch ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    An illuminating essay on the bestselling Noongar writer and author of the Miles Franklin Award–winning novels Benang and That Deadman Dance'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • On Patrick White

    Writers on Writers

    ‘Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound love for his partner, that we were a migrant and mongrel nation forging our own culture and our ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Peter Carey

    Writers on Writers

    Series series Writers on Writers
    Exploring dislocation and longing, Sarah Krasnostein dives into Peter Carey's literary tour de force, True History of the Kelly Gang, in this latest offering from the stunning Writers on Writers essay series.Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Robyn Davidson

    Writers on Writers

    by Richard Cooke ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson’s relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters.In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Shirley Hazzard

    Writers on Writers

    Series series Writers on Writers
    Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go … It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony country where I would never feel at home. Splendour had entered the scene.In this vibrant, rich and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Thomas Keneally

    Writers on Writers

    by Stan Grant ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    Keneally’s caricature of a self-loathing Jimmie Blacksmith is a lost opportunity to explore the complex ways that Aboriginal people . . . were pushing against a white world that would not accept them for who they were; that would not see them as equal; that, in truth, would not see them as human.Acclaimed journalist Stan Grant weaves literary criticism, philosophy and memoir to shed light on The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Tim Winton

    Writers on Writers

    Series series Writers on Writers
    In this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia’s greatest living writers, Tim Winton.In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Outback and Out West

    The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary

    by Tom Lynch ...
    Outback and Out West examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian Outback. Tom Lynch traces exogenous domination in both regions, which resulted in many similar means of settlement, including pastoralism, homestead acts, afforestation efforts, and bioregional efforts at ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Passionate Friends

    Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin

    by Sylvia Martin ...
    Series Book 2 - Queer Oz Folk
    Mary Fullerton (1868-1946) and Mabel Singleton (1877-1965) met in Melbourne as suffrage and peace activists in Vida Goldstein's Women's Political Association. They remained together for thirty-five years as loving friends, raising Mabel's son born in 1911. Through her literary friendship with Miles Franklin (1879-1954), Mary Fullerton's last two volumes of poetry were published in the 1940s. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Patrick White Beyond the Grave

    Edited by Ian Henderson, Anouk Lang ...
    Series series Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
    Patrick White (1912–1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. In 2006, White’s literary executor, Barbara Mobbs, released a highly significant collection of hitherto unpublished papers, reviving mainstream and scholarly interest in his work. 'Patrick White Beyond the Grave' considers White’s writing in light of the new findings, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patrick White's Theatre

    Australian Modernism on Stage, 19602018

    by Denise Varney ...
    One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting.In Patrick White’s Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White’s eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Peter Carey

    The Making of a Global Novelist

    Series series New Directions in Book History
    Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey’s literary career from his emergence in the Australian literary scene as a contributor to local literary magazines to when he published his fiction exclusively with large conglomerate publishers. As Australia’s most decorated author for a period nearing half a century, Carey’s career gives unparalleled insights into the global ... Read more

    $98.99 USD