Tag: Monique Rooney

  • Introduction: Passing, Imitations, Crossings Humanities Research Volume XVI. Number 1 (2010) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University When it was revealed that Anglo-Australian writer Helen Darville had passed as Ukrainian to publish a novel about the Holocaust, there was much public and scholarly debate about the…

  • “Recoil” or “Seize”?: Passing, Ekphrasis and “Exact Expression” in Nella Larsen’s Passing Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2001 Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University Part One: Deep Nothing Mona Lisa’s famous smile is a thin mouth receding into…

  • Grave endings: the representation of passing Austrailian Humanities Review Issue 23 (September 2001) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University At the 2000 Academy Awards, Hilary Swank won the award of “Best Actress” for her role as Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena in Kimberley Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry (2000).…