- Title
- Changing the tide and the tidings of change: Robert Drewe's The Drowner
- Creator
- Rolls, Alistair; Alayrac, Vanessa
- Relation
- Southerly: a Review of Australian Literature Vol. 62, Issue 3, p. 154-167
- Relation
- http://southerlyjournal.com.au/back-issues
- Publisher
- English Association, Sydney Branch
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- The Drowner is a liquid text. Whilst it ebbs and flows from the outset, however, at no point is it clear whether it is ebbing or flowing; instead, it both ebbs and flows simultaneously, its narrative locus twirling on the eddies of this perpetual paradox. It assumes its position as a text of change, of movement within stillness and of constant self-contradiction. As a result, The Drowner breaks with the modern Australian myth of the beach, both chronologically, be it historical or narrarive time, and spatially, be it geographical or textual space. And this is a myth of which Drewe, himself, was amongst the pioneers.
- Subject
- beach; narrative; liquid text; gender; Robert Drewe; The Drowner
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34913
- Identifier
- uon:3771
- Identifier
- ISSN:0038-3732
- Language
- eng
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