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Forum: Theorising histories of sexuality

National parapraxis

Sex and Forgetting in Australian Censorship History

Pages 296-314 | Published online: 27 Jan 2009

  • Coleman , Peter . 2000 . Obscenity, Blasphemy and Sedition: The Rise and Fall of Literary Censorship in Australia , Sydney : Duffy and Snellgrove .
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  • Heath and Nile , Richard . 2002 . The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination , 247 – 60 . Brisbane : University of Queensland Press . Peter Coleman's influential book has remained so because his account makes use of extensive access to Trade and Customs department files from state and national archives. Other scholars also use them but no systematic study of their information has been published, nor a guide to the various series. (National Archives of Australia: Series A3023, A425, A6280/1, C4480/23 and others in Canberra; Series SP331/4, SP 822/36, SP906/1 and others in Sydney. National Library of Australia: uncatalogued collections of papers from the Colonial and Commonwealth Customs Departments, including papers from the different Ministers for Customs; papers of L. H. Allen, chair of the Literature Censorship Board; papers of A. Hope Hewett, Member of the LCB, 1960–67. State Archives of NSW: papers of the NSW Attorney General's Office; NSW Customs Office. Other state archives, and so on.) See, Patrick Buckridge, ‘Clearing a Space for Australian Literature 1940–1965,’ Oxford Literary History of Australia, eds Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998), 169-92
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  • Heath . 69 – 70 . Nile, 169-92
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  • McMahon , E. and Olubus , B. , eds. “ ‘Mother is, like, History’ ” . In Feminist Temporalities , Perth : University of Western Australia Press . Ibid., 199. This observation of Freud's is also discussed in a chapter titled, in, forthcoming
  • Halbwachs , Maurice . 1992 . On Collective Memory , Edited by: Coser , Lewis . Chicago and London : Chicago University Press . ed., trans. and intro., Les Lieux de Mémoire, sous la direction de Pierre Nora. 2v. (Paris: Gallimard, 1984–86), English Language edition, Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, under the direction of Pierre Nora, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996–98)
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  • McKenna's . 2002 . Looking for Blackfellow's Point , 62 – 4 . Sydney : University of New South Wales Press . See Mark McKenna's return to Stanner's use of ‘disremembering’ in a chapter called ‘Forgetting’ in, an account of the histories of land use on the far south coast of NSW, personalised by McKenna's own occupancy. That chapter pursues further uses of ‘forgetting’ in history, in the context of the silence identified by Stanner
  • 2004 . ‘Interview with Jill Roe’ . Australian Humanities Review , 33 August-October See an interview with feminist historian and biographer Jill Roe for discussion of the subjective in history, ([online] http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/)
  • Plummer's , Ken . 1995 . Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds , London and New York : Routledge . is the clearest account of the uses of sexual narratives in creating public forms of identity
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  • Schaffer's , Kay . 1988 . Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition , Melbourne : Cambridge University Press . is the first and perhaps most significant exploration, but see also the literary articles of Joan Kirkby
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  • Foucault , Michel . 1989 . The Archaeology of Knowledge , Edited by: Smith , A. M. Sheridan . 191 – 191 . London and New York : Routledge . trans, emphasis in original
  • Sassoon , Joanna . 2003 . ‘Phantoms of remembrance: Libraries and Archives of “Collective Memory”’ . Public History Review , 10 : 44 – 5 .
  • Heath . 69 – 82 . Nile, 247-60
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  • Hardt , Michael and Negri , Antonio . 2000 . Empire , 135 – 6 . Harvard : Harvard University Press .
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  • Hardt and Negri . 25 – 25 .
  • 2001 . ‘History and The Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Limits, Secrets, Value’ . Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies , 4 ( 2 ) July : 175 – 85 . Rita Birla's recent engagement with Spivak's Critique of Colonial Reason usefully outlines Spivak's reconceptualisation of history's dependence on colonial reason, and the potential for rethinking in relation to documentary records and archives
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  • Foucault . History of Sexuality 25 – 6 .
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  • 1930 . ‘Banning of “Redheap”’. Commonwealth Powers to Prevent Reprinting.’ . Sydney Morning Herald , May : 10 – 10 . Letter to the editor Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May 1930, 10, ‘Norman Lindsay and This Censorship’, Bulletin 28 May 1930 51 (2624) 9, Cecil Mann, ‘Australia Remains a Joke’ Bulletin, Red Page 25 June 1930, 51 (2628) 2
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