Sheer Edge: Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing

by Karin Hansson, Sven Bäckman (Editor), Jan Svartvik (Editor)

The Australian writer David Malouf deserves more critical attention, especially in Europe, than is generally recognized. This first full-length critical study has been undertaken in the conviction that a serious assessment of his oeuvre is due. Its purpose is to investigate and illuminate the continuity and unity of Malouf´s fiction and poetry by focusing on aspects of identity in his writing. All his published works testify to his attempt to define and preserve individual identity "at the edge of darkness" through interrelations, language, imagination and art in a wrold of disintegrating humanist values.

170 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 1991

About the author

Karin Hansson is a Swedish artist and researcher known for her pioneering work in political art and new media. She graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 1994 and later earned her PhD at Stockholm University with a thesis on power, belonging, and representation online. Her artistic practice critically engages with the development of the information society through projects such as Best Before, Money, Public Opinion, Performing the Common, and Work a Work. She co-founded the artists’ group Association for Temporary Art t and was active in CRAC, a Stockholm-based media lab for artists. Hansson is Associate Professor in Computer and Systems Sciences and a researcher at Södertörn University, where her interdisciplinary work spans net activism, digital heritage, participatory research methods, and artistic research.