Dissenting Lives

Anne Collett is an Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has edited Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Culture since 2000 and has written extensively on postcolonial poetry and women’s writing and visual arts, including most recently, essays on Jamaican Canadian poet Olive Senior and Australian poet, Judith Wright.Tony Simoes da Silva teaches literature at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Recent publications include work on displacement and identity as conveyed through literary representations of refugees; on civil conflict and gender in the work of Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; and on Australian film and literature.

• 1. Introduction: Dissenting Lives Anne Collett and Tony Simoes da Silva 2. Consenting Voices? Activist Life Stories and Complex Dissent Margaretta Jolly 3. Detention, Displacement and Dissent in Recent Australian Life Writing Michael Jacklin 4. ‘The Closet of the Third Person’: Susan Sontag, Sexual Dissidence, and Celebrity Guy Davidson 5. How to Avoid Life Writing: Lessons from David Lynch Nicola Evans 6. The Other Side of the Curtain Irene Lucchitti 7. Recomposing Her History: the Memoirs and Diaries of Ethel Smyth Amanda Harris 8. The Laws of God and Men: Eliza Davies’ Story of an Earnest Life Sarah Ailwood 9. She Speaks with the Serpent’s Forked Tongue: Expulsion, Departure, Exile and Return Luz Hincapié