Robyn Ferrell papers, ca. 1970-1996

MLMSS 9071/Boxes 1-10
MLMSS 9071/Box 11X

fonds

ca. 1970-1996

Textual Records, Clippings

151928

2.34 metres of textual material (10 boxes and 1 outsize box) - printed, manuscript, clippings

Robyn Ferrell is an Australian writer and philosopher, currently living in Sydney. She is the author of several books of philosophy and a book of creative non-fiction, The Real Desire, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Award in 2005

'I like to write in the space between ideas and feelings. Sometimes this becomes philosophy, sometimes creative nonfiction. More often than not, these days, I'm using my own photos to accompany my writing

'Working on Sacred Exchanges has been a longtime project for me. I began looking at Aboriginal art in the mid 1990s, writing on native title and Central Desert painting as a kind of law. I later personalised this research by writing about my childhood growing up in a West Australian country town where Aboriginal people were relegated to reserves on the outskirts and the history of their treatment ignored - this piece is published as 'Pinjarra 1970: Shame and the Country Town' in my book The Real Desire

'In 2005, anthropologist colleague Jennifer Biddle and I won a large national grant to research feminist theory and Indigenous art, and Sacred Exchanges is the outcome of that project for me.'

Robyn Ferrell is a research fellow at the University of Sydney, in the Gender and Cultural Studies Department. She trained as a journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald before completing a PhD on philosophy and literature and taking up academic teaching positions at Macquarie University, University of Tasmania and University of Melbourne

Reference:
Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Robyn-Ferrell/e/B001HQ4GZQ (accessed 15 August, 2013)

Box 1
Short story and poetry drafts, 1977-1979
Articles, 1980s-1990s
Drafts of ‘Project arable’, 1987-1988
Press releases, 1988
‘Life Cycle’ notes and correspondence, 1990
Drafts of incomplete short fiction
Drafts of various articles and essays
‘Clearance’ – notes
‘Dead weight’ – notes
Two scrapbooks of newscuttings

Box 2
Drafts of various articles and essays, 1990
Thesis drafts 1 and 2, 1990
Notes and drafts of ‘Pathologies of Faith’, 1992
‘The Real Desire’ draft, 1994

Box 3
University notes, 1990s
Various drafts of ‘The Real Desire’, 1991-1996
Draft of ‘Passion in theory’, 1996

Box 4
Notebooks, 1980s-1990s
Draft of ‘Reading Freud: The Body in Theory’, 1993

Box 5
Four Honours essays, 1982
Two drafts of a novel, ‘Dead Weight’, 1986
Draft of ‘Project arable’, 1987
Four drafts of ‘The Real Desire’, 1992-1995
Draft of ‘Reading Freud: The Body in Theory’, 1993
Two drafts of ‘Essays from inland’, 1995

Box 6
Notebooks, 1980s-1990s
Two of Robyn Ferrell’s expired passports


Box 7
Notebooks, 1980s-1990s

Box 8
Notebooks, 1980s-1990s

Box 9
Drafts of various articles and essays
File regarding Robyn Ferrell’s novel ‘The Weather and Other Gods’
24 floppy disks labeled, ‘The Real Desire’, ‘Thesis’, ‘Essays’, amongst others
Three copies of novels by Gail Morgan, inscribed by the author and a copy of Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley, inscribed by the author

Box 10
Personal correspondence

Box 11X
Scrapbook of clippings of Robyn Ferrell’s published journalism, 1984-1985

Partly restricted: - - The notebooks and personal letters are embargoed during the authors lifetime. Access to the material, and to photocopying facilities, is provided for the author and her agents

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners

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