Australian Women's Book Review Volume 14.1 - School of English ...

costs, it is a supreme challenge to ask man to become conscious of his uniqueness and his limitation.
Uniqueness and limitation are synonymous. Without them, no perception of the unlimited is possible -
and, consequently, no coming to consciousness either - merely a delusory identity with it which takes
the form of intoxication with large numbers and an avidity for political power' (The Undiscovered Self).
The most prominent discourse, and the one interspersed throughout Nowhere, is the discourse of war.
Flowing from the stage in the Beckett Theatre at Melbourne's Playbox, in the wake of September 11, its
historic import faded before the fresh onslaught of a universal and ominous signifier.
Jasna Novakovic grew up with fiction and the sound of music at heart, and was adamant that she
would make a career in opera. Radio unexpectedly opened the possibility for accommodating
both but, when the country of her birth started crumbling to pieces, the music stage followed suit
leaving theatre as the only resilient medium. Reviewing plays proved to be a source of solace and
newly discovered joy, and Jasna was attracted to Dorothy Hewett and to her exuberant world of
emotion and social critique. A PhD thesis at Monash University, when completed, will explain
more.
Fredric Jameson. The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998. London and
New York: Verso, 1998.
Published in Hecate 2.2, (1976).
Richard Murphy. Theorizing The Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of
Postmodernity. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Peter Brooks. The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and the Mode of
Excess. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976
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