Jamming the Machinary (ASAL literary studies)

the long version

In this book Alison Bartlett reflects on the implications of French feminist theory during the late 1980s early 1990s, especially its call for a writing practice which resists established patterns of representation and offers new versions of women's experience. Through an analysis of then contemporary Australian writing by Ania Walwicz, Margaret Coombs, Fiona Place, Inez Baranay, Susan Hawthorne, Sue Woolfe and Davida Allen, this book outlines some of the complexities of contemporary feminist art. Bartlett blurs the divide between critic and writer by including her own fictocritical speculations and inserting comments by the writers generated through a series of interviews and letters, which are included.