Table of Contents:
  • PART ONE: NARRATIVE
  • Out of England: literary subjectivity in the Australian colonies, 1788-1867 / Simon During
  • Dead white male heroes: Ludwig Leichhardt and Ned Kelly in Australian fiction / Susan Martin
  • Escaping the Bush paradigm / Lucy Frost
  • David Malouf, history, and an ethics of the body / Andrew Taylor
  • Identity, play, imagination: David Malouf, Hossein Valamanesh, and I / Ihab Hassan
  • "Inner experience" in Gerald Murnane's The plains / Andrew Zawaki
  • PART TWO: CULTURE
  • A chance to hear a Nyigina song / Stephen Muecke
  • "The first white man born": miscegenation and identity in Kim Scott's Benang / Tony Birch
  • Sorry-in-the-sky: empathetic unsettlement, mourning, and the stolen generations / Gail Jones
  • The mystery of the missing middlebrow or the c(o)urse of good taste / David Carter
  • A short while toward the sun: the golden years of internationalism / Frank Moorhouse
  • Australia, America, and the changing face of nature documentary / Graham Huggan
  • The man from Hong Kong in Sydney, 1975 / Meaghan Morris
  • PART THREE: POETRY
  • "Woeful shepherds": anti-pastoral in Australian poetry / Paul Kane
  • Two versions of Australian pastoral: Les Murray, William Robinson / Robert Dixon
  • Darkness and lostness: how to read a poem by Judith Wright / Kevin Hart
  • The presentation and performance of self in the poetry of John Forbes / Brian Henry
  • "Split belonging" in Les Murray's novel in verse, Fredy Neptune / Judith Ryan
  • The end of the line / Chris Wallace-Crabbe.