Locating Australian Literary Memory

Brigid Magner

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781785271076
• eBook ISBN: 9781785271090
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon – who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers' houses and assorted objects. Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Introduction: Remembering Absent Authors
• Chapter One Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Grave
• Chapter Two Joseph Furphy in the Riverina
• Chapter Three Henry Handel Richardson and the Haunting of Lake View
• Chapter Four Henry Lawson Country
• Chapter Five The Multiple Birthplaces of A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson
• Chapter Six Nan Chauncy’s Sanctuary
• Chapter Seven Living MemorialsThe Houses of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark
• Chapter Eight Statue Mania: P. L. Travers and the Appeal of Mary Poppins
• Chapter Nine Kylie Tennant’s Hut
• Chapter Ten The David Unaipon Monument at Raukkan
• Conclusion: Towards an Expanded Repertoire of Literary Commemorations
• Notes
• Index