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Stages Of Development: Remembering Old Sydney In Ruth Park's 'Playing Beatie Bow' And A Companion Guide To Sydney, Monique C. Rooney
Stages Of Development: Remembering Old Sydney In Ruth Park's 'Playing Beatie Bow' And A Companion Guide To Sydney, Monique C. Rooney
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Ruth Park's Playing Beatie Bow (1980) can easily be read as a bildungsroman, a novel of self-development or apprenticeship. Falling between the "child" and the "Young Adult" category, it is the story of an adolescent girl who comes to terms with the part she plays in a family romance. This plot, in keeping with other Oedipal dramas, matches personal development with issues of social, cultural and national importance. However, in tension with this thematic of personal and cultural progression is Park's exploration of the contradictory role that the fetish plays in a female coming-of-age narrative. This essay analyses Park's deployment …
Len Fox 1905-2004, Rowan Cahill
Len Fox 1905-2004, Rowan Cahill
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Eureka flag draped over the coffin of Len Fox was there because Len had spent much of his life, some 60 years and three books, authenticating a flag in the Ballarat Art Gallery as the flag that flew over the stockade of the Eureka rebels in 1854, the symbol, in the words of historian Bob Walshe who spoke at his funeral service, "that most dramatically captures the spirit of Australian struggle for an independent democratic republic".