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{"title":"Topographies of reception: Thea Astley","authors":"L. Dale","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.26","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is an intervention in debates about the reputation of Australian writers, with specific reference to the career of Thea Astley (and, as a ‘benchmark’, Randolph Stow). It argues that the terrain in which reputations are made and books are valued is complex and uneven, particularly when viewed from regional perspectives. The aim is to shift the focus in ‘reception’ from single fields, such as book sales, literary prizes, critical attention and international recognition, to show a more complex literary ecology within which authors might simultaneously ‘rise’ and ‘fall’ in different ways. The data supporting this claim come from a variety of sources, including newspaper databases, schools and libraries, although the article is ‘preliminary’ in the sense that it does not investigate the substance of the quantitative data compiled — for example, it does not consider in depth the reviews or kinds of stories that were carried in the press. The discussion of reputation aims to keep Astley’s oeuvre and style in view, in order to consider why and how Astley might be ‘neglected’ and how this neglect might be addressed.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"203 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.26","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44055197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kerry-Anne Walsh, Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2018, 304 pp., ISBN 9 7817 6011 2288, A$29.99. - Bligh Grant, Tod Moore and Tony Lynch (eds), The Rise of Right-Populism: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Australian Politics, Singapore: Springer, 2019, 241 pp., ISBN 9 7898 1132 6691, €34.99.","authors":"Richard Gehrmann","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.34","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"48 4","pages":"290-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138505219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘To my brother’: Gay love and sex in Thea Astley’s novels and stories","authors":"Cheryl Taylor","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.32","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Beginning as early as A Descant for Gossips (1960), gay men and gay love come and go in Thea Astley’s prose oeuvre. The responses that these characters and this topic invite shift with point of view and under the impact of varied themes. Astley’s treatment refuses to be contained, either by traditional Catholic doctrines about sex or by Australia’s delay in decriminalising homosexual acts. Driven by love for her gay older brother Philip, whose death from cancer corresponded with her final allusions to gay love in The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996), Astley’s only constant message on this, as on other topics, is humans’ responsibility to treat each other with kindness. This essay draws on Karen Lamb’s biography and on writings and reminiscences by Philip Astley’s family and fellow Jesuits to reveal his significance as his sister sought to resolve through her fiction the conflict between an inculcated Catholic idolisation of purity and her own hard-won understanding and acceptance of gay men.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"269 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.32","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42351914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reading the ‘Gold Coast Symphony’ in Thea Astley’s The Acolyte","authors":"Alison Bartlett","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.29","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Thea Astley is a figure who is strongly associated with music, both in her life interests and in her writing rhythms and allusions; this article investigates the uses of music in her 1972 novel The Acolyte. Drawing on a recent genre of critical musicology that understands music to be a social practice, The Acolyte is read in relation to mid-twentieth-century cultural debates around the development of a distinctive Australian classical music. Centring on the blind pianist turned composer Jack Holberg, The Acolyte is grounded in the Gold Coast hinterland as an inspiring and generative landscape, in contrast with the desolate outback favoured in national mythologies. Holberg’s ‘Gold Coast Symphony’, arguably the turning point of the novel, imaginatively writes this coastal fringe of urban debauchery into the vernacular of classical music through its performance in conservative 1960s Brisbane. In this article, I read The Acolyte as a novel positioned within an Australian musicological history that intersects with the poetics of place, the politics of gender and sexuality, and ongoing national formations through cultural production.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"232 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.29","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47940894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thea Astley, Selected Poems, edited by Cheryl Taylor, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2017, 167 pp., ISBN 9 7807 0225 9791, A$24.95.","authors":"Ariella van Luyn","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.37","url":null,"abstract":"writingwas throughher short story collectionHunting theWildPineapple (1979), and as I closed the book I wondered why she had focused on the grotesque and extreme elementsof thenorth,andonthestrange livesof failinganddisappointedpeople.But the characters burrowed intomypsyche, as did the themes and ideasAstleywas exploring, and I recognised uncomfortably familiar shapes and echoes of a not-too-distant past. Susan Sheridan insightfully examines the legacy of Astley’swriting and its confronting themes inThe Fiction of TheaAstley. Astley’s use of satire imaginatively playswith language to probe, through her distinctive use of small communities of characters, the paucity of existence and struggle for meaning in what at first appears to be an outlier Australiainherstories.Sheridanshowsthatthisisatrope, thattheregionalstandsforthe national, and read thisway connects the specific to amuchwider discourse. She rightly identifiesAstley asone ofAustralia’smost innovativewriters, linking her stylistic use of metaphor and irony, and what she terms ‘compressed prose’, to utilise landscape and place ‘to mirror and intensify the emotional states of the characters’ (2016, p. 7). The fecundityof the landscapereflects theemotionsandrelationshipsdepicted in the stories. Sheridan’s approach is to group Astley’s novels by theme, comparing the development of ideas through the use of literary experimentation in the novels. She points out how unique Astley was in her treatment of the aftermath of the colonial project and its reverberations within society. Her ideas around masculinity and its destructive force not only found expression in the North Queensland context where I first encountered it, but was evident in a running thread throughout all her work. Sheridan explores the evolution of Astley’s response to the patriarchal society in which she grew up and which informed her depiction of character, and how her growing awareness of feminism was reflected in that evolving use of character. Astley was not afraid to investigate difficult territory such as the dynamic coexistence between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in North Queensland and in Vanuatuan postcolonial society. She explores the attempts of these groups to remake and understand themselves in a place permanently damaged by the violence of the past, which consequently left all these divergent cultures irrevocably altered. It is an important question around our collective identity with which we, as a nation, still have not come to terms. Astley’s writing in this space and Sheridan’s sensitive examination of these issues in Astley’s work make an important contribution to the work of understanding the impact of our shared past.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"287 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.37","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46151027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: The work of Thea Astley","authors":"S. Sheridan","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.25","url":null,"abstract":"I am honoured and delighted to have been invited, along with Associate Professor Jessica Gildersleeve, to edit this special issue of Queensland Review on the work of Thea Astley. I owe Jessica heartfelt thanks for her hard work and easy collegiality. Fifteen years since Astley’s death, the appearance of this collection of essays marks the development of a growing body of biographical and critical studies of her work. The essays complement Karen Lamb’s 2015 biography, Inventing Her Own Weather, and my critical monograph, The Fiction of Thea Astley (2016), as well as the collection of essays edited by myself and Paul Genoni, Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds (2006). Most recently, Thea Astley: Selected Poems appeared in 2017, edited by Cheryl Taylor (who has an essay in this issue) and published by the University of Queensland Press (Astley’s publisher for many years). Most of Astley’s novels and story collections are in print, and they are being read in new ways, with new eyes and in new contexts. Text Publishing has brought out reprints of four of the novels in its Classics series, with introductions by novelists of today. Kate Grenville on A Kindness Cup (1974) emphasises Astley’s pioneering role as a historical novelist, particularly her capacity for ‘saying the unsayable’ about the violence of colonialism. Chloe Hooper, introducing The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996), draws attention to the parallels between the account of the death of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2005, which she covered in her book The Tall Man (2008), and Astley’s novel based on a massacre on the island in 1930 and its long-term after-effects. Emily Maguire writes of Astley’s last novel, Drylands (1999), that we are now living in the ‘bleak’ future world that it envisaged, where ‘so little that is punishable in any ethical society is punished in this one’ – but that Astley writes with ‘the skill of a novelist with both immense compassion and knife-thrower levels of nerve’. Emerging novelist Jennifer Down had not previously read Reaching Tin River (1990), and her introduction to the novel conveys her surprised pleasure at the economy of the writing and its qualities: ‘acerbic but never cynical, tender but never sentimental, ironic but never cruel’. Other recent readers, who offer comments on It’s Raining in Mango (1987) on the Goodreads website (where all Astley’s novels are listed), express surprise that an Australian novelist in the 1980s should have taken such a powerfully critical stance on racist and sexist violence, or presented a gay man as a major character. In an age","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"199 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.25","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44923425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Karen Lamb, Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2015, 360 pp., ISBN 9 7807 0225 3560, A$34.95.","authors":"E. Doolan","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"285 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.33","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44929794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Double trouble: The teacher/satirist duality in Thea Astley’s critical writings","authors":"Kate Cantrell, L. Hawkes","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.28","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over a fifty-year period, from 1944 to 1994, Thea Astley published a number of critical writings, including essays, newspaper articles and reviews, and short reflections and meditations on her craft. Despite a renewed interest in Astley’s work, however, most critical interrogations of her oeuvre focus on her novels, and more recently her poetry. As a result, Astley’s critical writing has not been afforded the same breadth and depth of investigation as her fiction. This lacuna is troubling, since Astley’s critical works are important not only for their insight, but for what they reveal about Astley’s self-representation, and in particular the dual identity that she embodied as both a teacher and a satirist. This article argues that these dual roles emerge clearly in Astley’s essays and in fact are inextricable from many of her works. Further, the tensions between these two personae — Astley as teacher and Astley as satirist — reveal natural overlaps with her imaginative writing, and reflect her changing ideas about fiction writing, literature, and education.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"218 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.28","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41675022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The death of Australian literature in Thea Astley’s Drylands","authors":"Meg Brayshaw","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.31","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reads Thea Astley’s final novel in the context of rhetoric about the death of Australian literature that has been a mainstay of our national culture almost since its inception. In the early 2000s, a new round of obituarists argued that the global publishing industry, critical trends and changing educational pedagogies were eroding Australia’s literary identity. Drylands, published in 1999, can be considered a slightly prescient participant in this conversation: it is subtitled A Book for the World’s Last Reader, seemingly framing the novel in a polemics of decline. My reading, however, sees the book as the product of two correlated yet combative literary projects: the attempt by its primary narrator, Janet Deakin, to write a book after what she sees as the likely death of reading and writing; and Astley’s more nuanced exploration of the role of literature in settler colonial modernity. Reading across the seven narratives that constitute the book, I argue that Drylands performs the fraught relationship between ethics and aesthetics in the context of writing about the systemic violence of the settler colonial state, questioning literary privilege, exclusivity and complicity in ways that remain relevant to debates regarding Australian literature today.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"256 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.31","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44307446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Girl with a monkey","authors":"Kate Cantrell","doi":"10.1017/qre.2019.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"217 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2019.27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41448200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}