Writers Behaving Badly: Stead, Bourdieu and Australian Literary Culture.(authors Christina Stead and Pierre Bourdieu)(Critical Essay)

Australian Literary Studies | May 1, 2001| | Copyright

IN his poem `Demo', published in the collection Subhuman Redneck Poems, Les Murray writes:

 
   No. Not from me. Never./Not a step in your march,/not a vowel in your 
   unison, / bray that shifts to bay .../I grant you no claim ever,/not if you 
   pushed the Christ Child/as President of Rock Candy Mountain/or yowled for 
   the found Elixir/ would your caste expectations snare me. (Subhuman Redneck 
   Poems 94)

In an application for a postdoctoral fellowship, which was prefaced with this quotation, I argued that

 
   this wry refusal to be press-ganged ...

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