Changing the tide and the tidings of change: Robert Drewe's The Drowner

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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