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Item Metadata only Writing the Global Riot: Literature in a Time of Crisis(Oxford University Press, 2023) Bayeh, J.; Groth, H.; Murphet, J.Abstract The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric. Yet there has been no sustained attempt to trace or theorize the various ways writers over time and in different contexts have shaped cultural perceptions of the riot as a distinctive form of political and social expression. Through a focus on questions of voice, massing, and mediation, this collection is the first cross-cultural study of the interrelatedness of a prevalent mode of political and economic protest and the variable styles of writing that riots have inspired. This volume will provide historical depth and cultural nuance, as well as examine more recent theoretical attempts to understand the resurgence of rioting in a time of unprecedented global uncertainty. One of the key contentions of this collection is that literature has done far more than merely record or register riotous practices. Rather literature has, in variable ways, used them as raw material to stimulate and accelerate its own formal development and critical responsiveness. For some writers this has manifested in a move away from classical norms of propriety and accord, and towards a more openly contingent, chaotic, and unpredictable scenography and cast of dramatis personae, while others have moved towards narrative realism or, more recently, digital media platforms to manifest the crises that riots unleash. Keenly attuned to these formal variations, the chapters in this collection analyse literature’s fraught dialogue with the histories of violence that are bound up in the riot as an inherently volatile form of collective action.Item Metadata only Map Failures(University of Western Australia Press, 2018) Prosser, R.W.; Cothren, A.; Mead, A.This invited work develops ideas about environment, the beach and the road. Presented as a description of travel to the coast of South Australia, the experimental work here delivers a story of the ways that maps can fail.Item Metadata only The Bb Book(University of Melbourne, 2019) Rutherford, J.; Green, J.Item Restricted Arrowhead(Social Alternatives, 2022) Hooton, M.Short fiction that presents the life story of a Wild West performer, who is advertised by her travelling circus as indigenous to North America, but is in fact an abducted Korean woman.Item Metadata only Notes on Falling(Penguin Random House South Africa, 2022) Law Viljoen, B.Notes on Falling is about the hope that art will challenge perceptions and orthodoxy so that the world can be reinvented through new forms.Item Metadata only The Printmaker(Penguin Random House South Africa, 2016) Law-Viljoen, B.Overwhelmed by the task of sorting and exhibiting this work, she seeks the advice of a curator. What compulsion drove the printmaker to make art for four decades, and why did he so seldom show his prints?Item Restricted Andy Warhol's Queer Practice: Disidentification and Utopian Desire(Art Gallery of South Australia, 2023) van der Vlies, A.Item Metadata only Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018(University of Toronto Press, 2022) Pender, A.This monograph provides a useful study of Patrick White’s plays in the context of modernism. Target audiences include theatre historians, theatre studies students, and theatre practitioners.Item Metadata only Macau Days(Art + Australia, 2017) Castro, B.A.; Young, J.Item Metadata only Apophlegms(Mascara Literary Review, 2018) Castro, B.A.; CAHILL, M.Item Metadata only Sprints with Elizabethan sighs(Manifold, 2017) Coleman, A.Item Restricted Because Puppets Do Not Age, Do Not Fear Gravity, Do Not Betray Those Who Love Them Most(Southerly, 2019) Hooton, M.J.A piece of short fiction that chronicles the Russian dissident dancer Rudolph Nureyev’s appearance on Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show in 1978. The story seeks to explore the profound impact of both art and personal loss on subsequent generations through a fragmented and polyphonic narrative.Item Restricted Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett(2016) Jose, R.Item Restricted Is This Our Inheritance O Lord, and Is That Your Voice We Hear Echoing on the Party Line?(Riddle Fence, 2016) Hooton, M.J.A short story that reimagines the final stunt of Evel Knieval, which sees the daredevil attempt to jump the DMZ separating North and South Korea. The piece thematically explores personal and historical loss, as well as cultural alienation and connection.Item Restricted How to Write a Successful Obituary for a Superhero(Pulp Literature Press, 2016) Hooton, M.J.A short story that explores our culture’s fascination with superheroes and comics by satirizing the death of a local superhero and the ethical conundrums of the obituary writer who knows the man’s true identity.Item Restricted A Local Footnote(Griffith Review, 2017) Jose, R.Item Restricted This Country(Aesthetica Magazine, 2016) Hooton, M.J.A short story set in an imagined apocalyptic future, in which two men try to survive freezing temperatures mid-winter. The piece explores themes of violence, mourning, and same sex relationships as it seeks to subvert expectations attached to genre fiction.Item Restricted The Great & Amazing Disappearing You(University of British Columbia, 2017) Hooton, M.J.A short story that reimagines the author’s family history with a grandfather who can walk through walls. The piece thematically explores intergenerational haunting and the impact of silence on family history.Item Restricted Greyson (excerpt from Mérencolye)(University of Western Australia Press, 2018) Rutherford, J.; Mead, A.; Cothren, A.Item Restricted Joseph Is a Brontosaurus Man, Mary Misses the Ice Age(The Antigonish Review, 2018) Hooton, M.J.A short story set between Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, and Adelaide, in South Australia, in which the protagonist mourns the death of a child while exploring an exhibit of fossils at a museum. The piece explores themes of environmental disruption and loss, and connects these to the physical and emotional experience of mourning.