http://hdl.handle.net/2440/15968 Search the Channel search http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2440/53118 Title: The Garden Book <br/> <br/>Author: Castro, Brian Albert http://hdl.handle.net/2440/52344 Title: Notes to a biographer <br/> <br/>Author: Castro, Brian <br/> <br/>Description: Copyright © Copyright Griffith University & the author. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/52343 Title: The Bath Fugues <br/> <br/>Author: Castro, Brian <br/> <br/>Abstract: This work takes the form of three interwoven novellas: three meditations on friendship based on Montaigne’s Essays. The research was centred around the themes of art forgery … in particular the forgeries perpetrated by the Red Brigades… and that of the falsification of identity. It incorporates research into the fugue, in both its musical and psychological forms. The work interrogates the structures of identity by examining Macanese ethnicity and surveying the justice system in Macau in the 1920s, where Chinese law existed side by side with Portuguese colonial wealth. Power and bloodlines played important roles in determining the posterity or otherwise of the family. Assumed identity and falsification of heritage were common practices. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/52342 Title: Arrested motion and future-mourning: Hybridity and creativity <br/> <br/>Author: Castro, Brian <br/> <br/>Abstract: Melancholy seems always to have had a bad press. In this essay I explore the ways in which the expression of negativity, ambivalence and dissonance in melancholy influenced and shaped my writing. Much of this melancholia stemmed from transplantation and dissonance and from the need to make oneself heard in a host country whose blindness to alterity ran parallel to an identitarian politics framed by exclusion. When a nation is unable to mourn its history, writers tend to be paralysed, being unable to detach themselves from a nation-building canon. I investigate melancholia as a productive agentin employing critique to produce counter-traditions and to offer resistance to dominant ideologies. I focus on writing in order to explore distinctive moments when melancholia, expressed in forms ranging from dissimulation to irony, played a decisive role in my writing career. <br/> <br/>Description: This is a lecture delivered at Liverpool Hope University at the 'Cultures in Transit' Conference held in July 2008.; Copyright © Tous droits réservés