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Staging Patti Smith: (Un)Reliable Stories, Identity, And The Audience-Text-Reader Relationship, Catherine Mckinnon

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Humans are the only animals that use stories to help make sense of the world. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan argues that ‘we lead our lives as stories, and our identity is constructed both by the stories we tell ourselves and others about ourselves and by the master narratives that consciously or unconsciously serve as models for ours’ (2002:11). An inquiry into how humans construct stories is also an inquiry into reliable and unreliable narration, into identity, and into the relationship between author, text and reader. It goes to the root of what it means to be human.

In this paper these three …

Can We Inhabit (Narrative) Time?, Shady E. Cosgrove

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

With the emergence of time-based movements (such as the ‘Slow Food’ movement and Japan’s ‘Sloth Club’) that question the pace of late-capitalist economies, time is emerging as a critical issue in the twenty-first century. This is of particular interest to authors because so much of time is understood within the context of narrative – and time has always been a key issue for authors in constructing texts. A novel can span one day (James Joyce’s Ulysses) or family generations (Jung Chang’s Wild Swans). It can be recounted from a position in the far-off future (Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre) or the …

Wikinews - A Safe Haven For Learning Journalism, Free Of The Usual Suspects Of Spin And Commercial Agendas, David Blackall, Leigh T. Blackall, Brian Mcneil

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Online distributed and networked voluntary journalism, across all media, is attracting attention as an alternative news service - offering situated, active, learning opportunities for emerging journalists. The internationally oriented journalism site Wikinews is positioned to offer high-quality learning in newswriting; while emphasizing ethics, reliability and therefore accuracy. Wikinews also offers opportunities for supported production and learning in the converged media context for original investigative journalism across the print, audio and visual formats.

This paper reviews the assignment processes in two 2011 undergraduate subjects in journalism, where Wikinews was used for publishing and assessment. Wikinews was effective for improving student engagement, …

'They Don’T Flinch’: Creative Writing/Critical Theory, Pedagogy/Students, Joshua M. Lobb

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In Creative Writing and the New Humanities, Paul Dawson declared that “Creative Writing needs to answer the critique of authorship and of the category of literature offered by Theory” and that central to discussion is the question “how do writing programmes negotiate the insights of contemporary theory, and the critique of literature which these offer?” (2005, 161). In the late 1990s, the rhetoric of Creative Writing academics certainly reflected this challenge. Jen Webb proposed that “one of the skills writing students need is an understanding of the politics of identity and representation” (2000); Kevin Brophy agreed, declaring that Creative Writing …

Envisioning The Shôjo Aesthetic In Miyazawa Kenji's 'The Twin Stars' And 'Night Of The Milky Way Railway', Helen Kilpatrick

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Despite an ever-growing body of scholarship on the shôjo (girl) in manga and anime, little has been written about representations of the ‘girl’ in Japanese picture books. Shôjo literature and culture have grown exponentially in Japan since about the 1980s, but there has been a tendency in popular media to overemphasise the 'cute', disempowering aspects of the ‘girl’. By using Takahara Eiri's (1999) concept of “girl consciousness” and Honda Masuko's (1992) envisioning of the girl’s imagined freedom through a hirahira (fluttering) aesthetic, notions of the powerless or mindlessly consuming shôjo can be dispelled. Such concepts help demonstrate that the girl …

The Correspondence Of Bernard O'Dowd And Walt Whitman: Indigeneity And The Cosmopolitics Of Settler Literary Nationalism, Michael R. Griffiths

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In the last two years before his death, Walt Whitman corresponded regularly with an Australian poet named Bernard O'Dowd. While he would later reach great prominence O'Dowd was, at this time, an obscure antipodean nobody, a poetic dilettante whose voice was yet to emerge. On 15 March 1891, Whitman wrote to his admiring antipodean correspondent noting that "[t]houghtful folks here are paying much attention to you south there & Canada north" (Whitman, Collected Writings 5:176). Despite this gesture of transnational comparison between the two countries, Whitman makes no apparent connection between the indigenous peoples of either dominion, nor does he …

Delivering Design: Testing A New Model For Developing Regional Audiences For Touring Exhibitions And Design Projects, Jennie A. Lawson, Lisa Cahill

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Object: Australian Design Centre (Object) partnered with the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) and the University of Wollongong (UOW) to undertake a research project to examine the relationship between the touring organisation and the host venue and how strengthening that relationship may lead to increased engagement with regional audiences.

Chinese Merchants In Singapore And The China Trade, 1819-1959, Jason Lim

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Chinese merchants in Singapore were involved with the China trade after the British established a trading post in Singapore in 1819. These merchants were regarded as Chinese citizens by the Chinese state and expected to be engaged in patriotic activities such as the promotion of Chinese goods as “national products” in the 1930s, and comply with Chinese government regulations during the Sino-Japanese War and after the communist victory in China in 1949. This paper traces the vicissitudes of the China trade for the Chinese merchants in Singapore as the island went through phases of political and economic stability, international competition, …