Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature — Book Review
The Conversation — Author Article
Brigid Magner explores this strange and idiosyncratic feature of Australian cultural expression, in an informative study of literary heritage, offering a comprehensive account of the ways in which Australians remember ten now absent authors, beginning with Adam Lindsay Gordon and moving through a range of writers, to finish with a focussed consideration of monuments to David Unaipon, one at Raukkan in South Australia and another still in the making, to be installed at Tailem Bend. — Anne Pender, University of Adelaide, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/14655/12940, accessed 19 August 2020
‘Brigid Magner’s fascinating study sets out the ways in which a nation can build an identity by actively constructing a literary memory, and then using those memories to paper over the deep history of our First Nations and their stories. In doing so she helps us understand both how fragile Australian culture is and also the ways in which literature is a powerful force.’ —Sophie Cunningham
"Magner's book is an innovative addition to Australian literary studies, and will hopefully inspire further efforts to memorialise more recent Australian authors. —Webby, Elizabeth. ‘Review of Locating Australian Literary Memory, by Brigid Magner.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2020, doi: 10.20314/als.d589b6304"
