At the turn of the last century, writers like Atha Westbury and Hume Cook were asking whether Australia had its own fairies, its own fairy tale lore...
In the last few decades, there has been little discussion of what might constitute an Australian fairy-tale tradition or practice, although there have been lauded attempts to create or continue them…
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Eleanor doesn’t know words like viridian, malachite, or celadon – she just knows green...
- Special issues: creative worksOnce there was a horrible ogress who was so ugly and mean that tales of her had spread far and wide, and she could not find a single person to...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleSince its first collection and publication in 1891, the gothic fairy tale ‘The Hobyahs’ has inspired various incarnations in Australian literature and film...
- Special issues: interviewsThis interview engages with how one artist physically draws upon the Australian landscape to retell iconic imagery from European fairy tale and folklore.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis paper explores efforts of the early writers to locate an Australian fairyland in the ‘bush’ and contribute to the transmission of national identity.
This article explores Australian author Kate Forsyth’s obsession with ‘Rapunzel’, from the time she first read the fairy tale as a child in hospital through to her doctoral research...
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Long ago my pard sent for a flock of paper birds. They flew on origami wings, cheeping messages in turn...
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This essay explores the plurality, plasticity and fecundity of classical iconography, through interpretations of fairies, and avouches that fairy tales cannot do without them.
- Special issues: creative works‘Paris,’ says my father. ‘I am flying to Paris tonight, and I want to bring back something for each of you. Whatever you want, you shall have, my daughters.’...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleAntagonism between girls/women in fairy tales has been the subject of much discussion over recent decades. Significantly less attention has been paid to the absence of collaborative female relationships...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleFairy tales were late to appear in the Australian context but they quickly reflected contemporary concerns over the treatment of the native flora and fauna...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article explores the notion that, presently, transporting European fairy tales, whole, into an Australian setting, seems to be a troubling proposition for writers in a post-colonial settler society.
- Special issues: creative worksShadow by shadow, night inches up the hill and the sky turns yellow orange bruise-blue indigo in the gaps between the gums on the ridgeline...
- ReviewsReview of Kate Forsyth, The rebirth of Rapunzel: A mythic biography of the maiden in the tower (FableCroft Publishing, Mawson ACT, 2016)