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This Special Issue of TEXT includes fiction, scholarly non-fiction and essays that address the question of what ‘Australia queer’ might mean in the current historical moment.
Special Issue 31 reflects, and builds, on Australia Queer (1996), a special edition of the journal Meanjin and a pioneering collection of queer Australian writing.
Special issues: editorial
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Annamarie Jagose was one of the editors of Meanjin's pioneering Australia Queer (1996) and her book Queer Theory was published by the University of Melbourne Press in the same year.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis paper is the development of the concept of écriture matière, a call for all bodies to write themselves, as they find themselves, in this moment, now.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis paper explores the life and work of Elsie Ruth (Lyn) Palmer (1934- 1969), an unpublished writer from Melbourne and her experiences as a lesbian writer during the 1950s.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article provides a critical survey of queer Australian fiction spanning fifteen years from 2000 to 2014. Forty works of fiction - novels and short story collections - are discussed.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article explores how writing informed by Queer Theory can be used as a technique in a Foucauldian ethics of the self, especially within the context of the teacher-student relationship.
This work explores some intersections of sexuality, belonging, race and migration in contemporary Australia through alternating acts of scholarly and creative writing.
Special issues: creative works
Once upon a time, in Gertrude Street Fitzroy, there was a heavy wooden door...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis experiment in queering the book review genre is a dialogue between two queer writers, Karina Quinn and Dallas John Baker, about Baker’s novella I Go Far Away Sometimes (2014)...
- Special issues: creative worksWhen Rajiv was twelve, he had, in a fit of rage, told his parents and sister that he would make an announcement the day he turned twenty-seven...
- Special issues: creative worksThe parallels are striking: the desacralisation, the shitting in their own nests, / falling victim to hard arses on the departmental Kool Aid...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article presents a framing account of how contemporary neoliberal forms of ‘homonormative’ queer cultures serve as a backdrop and context for queer creative representations...