Tilting at Matilda: Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia

In this book 28 leading poets, fiction writers and essayists contribute to the current debate through reflections on past and present Australian literature, Aboriginal issues, women’s issues, and the church.

Contents

• Introduction, by Dennis Haskell

Literary representations of Australia

• Codicils to the Book of Enoch by David Brooks
• The grave in the Bush by Elizabeth Webby
• The creative gaze on life manifold: Furphy and Cervantes by Maria Suarez-Lafuente
• Larrikinism and Ethel Turner’s fiction: The Sand-patch and the garden by Ron Shepherd
• Nostalgia for community: Tim Winton’s essay and stories by Bruce Bennett

Poetry and fiction

• Signs and portents by Rosemary Dobson
• A candle burns by Wendy Jenkins
• Mangoes and The poem conceived as powerful owl by David Brooks
• City of bypasses by Marion Campbell
• From like and Eqyptian by Brenda Walker

Women in the church and society

• Women homeless in church culture by Jeanette Lawrence and Agnes Dodds
• Wisdom cries out in the street: The exploration of a biblical symbol by Pamela A. Foulkes
• Republics, citizens and women by Patricia Crawford

Poetry

• Flowers by Dennis Haskell
• A sermon by Gwen Harwood

Aboriginal Australia

• Coonardoo and truth by Leigh Dale
• Acts of translation by Lorna Little and Delys Bird
• Understanding and narrative: Race relations in Australia, 1965-1994 by Jocelyn Dunphy Blomfield
• Embracing difference: Australia’s changing self-image by Myrna and Robert Tonkinson

Poetry and fiction

• Untitled by Graeme Dixon
• None so raw as this our land and Poetry housekeeping by Andrew Burke
• Island in the sun by Terri-ann White
• The exorcism by Vasso Kalamaras
• Epistle and The well as entry into the overworld by John Kinsella
• Reports from Rome and Floods in Genova by Philip Salom
• Oyster and Passengers by Nicolette Stasko
• Notes on Contributors: Veronica Brady