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Mudeye
Autobiography, telling of the author's childhood from his birth in 1933, in Ballarat, to his 16th year, when he ran away from Geelong Grammar School. Describes his early schooldays in Ballarat, his excursion with his father, a country vet, and the often tense relationship between the author and his parents. Includes a final chapter describing a therapy session with a psychologist at the age of 59.
My Boyfriend's Father
When sixteen-year-old Sylvia meets her boyfriend's father, Phillip, she is quickly captivated by his stories of travel and his reckless contempt for nineties' convention. Still a rebel in his forties, Phillip's world is slowly collapsing.
Eye of the White Hawk
Bary Dowling explores the sharp, often brutal division between city and rural Australia in this breathtaking collection of short stories.
One for the Master
When Helen Plathe sets out along the Barwon River path for her first day at Highlands woollen mill, she is following in the footsteps of her mother, her uncle, and her grandfather. Inside Highlands' tall black gates, Helen is initiated into an extraordinary world and discovers its secret history.
Eric and Ian Get a Life
There were times when Eric and Ian were so inseparable people named them as one. There were times when they competed with each other to be the dumbest, most bumbling fool in a universe full of idiots; times they thought they were immune from the murderous chaos of human life.
Counting the Rivers
Madeleine Roberts fears that she is losing her mind, but her search for treatment leads her into mortal danger. She decides to enter a psychiatric institution, where she is drugged and disoriented by electroconvulsive treatment
On My Brother's Shoulders
The story of Ty, a crippled young Vietnamese orphan who was just surviving in a primitive Catholic mission - He was rescued from there by Andre, a Vietnamese who did voluntary work for the misssions, and who went on establish a large complex of orpahanages in Vietnam.
Prisoner of Two Wars
It has taken the Probert brothers all their lifetime to find their father, and to discover just how rare an Australian he was. Theirs is a powerful, poignant and very Australian story.'
Rage of Angels
Rage of Angels, in the same vein as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, juxtaposes weirdly comic scenes from the several lives of Rick Richards, expatriate American. Sometimes real life, with its rusted Mustangs, haunted Rhineland castles, surfing sergeants, Asian chicken shops, and water babies, can dissolve into a cartoon Western or a road movie. And almost always does.
Subverting Masculinity
Contemporary Western societies are currently witness to a “crisis of masculinity” but also to an intriguing diversification of images of masculinity. Once relatively stable regimes of masculine gender representation appear to have been replaced by a wider spectrum of varieties of masculine “lifestyles” taken up by the media and the market, to produce new and immensely flexible forms consumerised gender hegemony. The essays in Subverting Masculinity concentrate on contemporary film, literature and diverse forms of popular culture. The essays show that the subversion of traditional images of masculinity is both a source of gender contestation, but may equally be susceptible to assimilation by new hegemonic configurations of masculinity. Subverting Masculinity maps out the ongoing relevance of gender politics in contemporary culture, but also raises the question of increasingly unclear distinctions between hegemonic and subversive versions of masculinity in contemporary cultural production. Subverting Masculinity will be of interest to students and teachers of gender, cultural, film and literary studies.
