Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Australian Women's Writing

该项目是第一个研究澳大利亚文学中的性别暴力的项目，认为澳大利亚女作家的文学作品提供了理解性别暴力社会问题的独特方式，将这一往往是私人和受压制的问题带入公共领域。它借鉴了暴力研究的国际领域，调查这些作家如何挑战受害者的范式和数字妇女机构。通过将白色、土著和少数民族妇女作家纳入其个案研究，并通过采访选定的作家，它将对性别暴力在国家多元和相互关联的文化历史中的作用提供新的认识，并将大大扩展澳大利亚文学经典的参数。

This project, the first to examine gendered violence in Australian literature, argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how these writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women's agencies. By including white, Indigenous and minority women writers in its case studies, and by interviewing selected writers, it will shed new light on the role of gendered violence in the diverse and interconnected cultural histories of the nation, and will significantly extend the parameters of the Australian literary canon.