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Her stories and essays unpicked the complexities and after-effects of colonialism in searing and incisive ways.
Gradually, with more life experience, I have gained perspective and poetic nerve.
The Passover Seder commemorates the escape from slavery in Egypt. But then came the 40-year wandering in the desert – a story that resonates with much of Jewish history.
For poet Robert Adamson, the natural world offered a form of deliverance.
In the latest higher education funding freeze: sacrificing the arts for STEM subjects makes no sense.
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
Songwriting, theatre, rap and graphic novels have won literary awards, but video games remain an overlooked part of the wider literary canon.
Angelou’s 1960s political journalism in Africa demonstrates her desire to link the struggle for civil rights in the US to global campaigns against racism.
Whether thousands of years ago or right now, fans have always created new stories based on familiar characters, weaving their own experiences into the tale.
Their novels feature defiant heroines, who resist the tyranny of forced marriages and seek moral, intellectual and economic liberation.
Alice B. Toklas and her partner, the influential modernist writer Gertrude Stein, hosted a celebrated Paris salon. Toklas would go on to write an unusual bestseller.
Social and literary realism have long detailed people’s everyday lives – and they have been a staple in popular music for decades.
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin was a born loner and instinctive satirist, whose usual response to collective enthusiasm was to dissent.
It’s tempting to see this trend as a sign of the times. But the biggest book publishers started changing their approach only once they realized they were leaving money on the table.
Which version of “The Metamorphosis” or “Crime and Punishment” should you choose? In a particularly well-stocked library or bookshop, you could find many different English translations.
These moving poems are a reminder that on Valentine’s Day, it’s OK to celebrate a broader definition of love.
Encouraging men to take the risk of expressing tender feelings for others is part of relying on love as a tool of anti-racist and decolonial education.
The fiction of J.M. Coetzee is always formally daring, brave in its social critique and its refusal to play by the rules.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
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Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University