Sydney eScholarship Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7663 2013-05-19T05:50:55Z 2013-05-19T05:50:55Z The Radical Poetics of the Gendered Urban Quotidian: Reading Anna Couani’s Literary Experimentalism of the 1970s and 1980s Brewster, Anne http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7672 2012-05-01T17:27:20Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: The Radical Poetics of the Gendered Urban Quotidian: Reading Anna Couani’s Literary Experimentalism of the 1970s and 1980s Authors: Brewster, Anne Abstract: Anna Couani is an important iconoclastic writer whose main body of work, published in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, redefined the parameters of the Australian literary field. This article examines Anna Couani’s formal experimentation which it locates within the gendered and cultural contexts of minoritisation. It examines how Couani’s postromantic critique of realism constitutes an exploration of subjectivity and identity formation. Her experimental fiction, I argue, in its efforts to defamiliarise reading conventions, articulates a crisis of belonging. In its radical poetics of the gendered everyday it seeks to locate the body in the alternative communities which characterise minority constituencies. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Contributors http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7667 2012-05-01T17:27:20Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Contributors 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Australian Made: A multicultural reader. Front matter and table of contents. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7666 2012-05-01T17:27:19Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Australian Made: A multicultural reader. Front matter and table of contents. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Introduction Mycak, Sonia Sarwal, Amit http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7665 2012-05-01T17:27:20Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Introduction Authors: Mycak, Sonia; Sarwal, Amit 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z