Maria Tumarkin

Twenty Years of Thinking about Traumascapes

Maria Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Fabrications

I have been researching and writing about traumascapes for the past two decades. The central argument guiding my research is simpl..

Against Motherhood Memoirs

M Tumarkin

Book Chapter  |  2018

What's behind the rise of the mummy bullies? Coerced by the media, interrogated by other mothers, frowned upon even by those who a..

Axiomatic

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

The past shapes the present – they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) T..

Not another diversity panel

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

The piece foregrounds voices of three prominent authors and thinkers from non-Anglo backgrounds and offers a way of reconceptualis..

Epilogue

M Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2017

The first book-length study of the survival of Polish Jews in Stalin's 30s Soviet Union.

The Alexievich method

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2017  |  TEXT

Exploration of Svetlana Alexievich's body of work

One F (in Hofmann) - and U-C-K the Consequences

M TUMARKIN

Journal article  |  2016  |  Sydney Review of Books

'Svetlana Alexievich didn't make it to the Royal Commission'

M TUMARKIN

Journal article  |  2016  |  The Conversation

No dogs, no fruit, no firearms, no professors

M Tumarkin

Book Chapter  |  2015

Wonky, idiosyncratic, fragmentary, paradoxical, drunk on words, the essay has . . . a uniquely human thumbprint.—Geordie Williamso..

What The Essayist Spills

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2015  |  Sydney Review of Books

No Skin

M Tumarkin

Book Chapter  |  2015

Traumascapes Revisited

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2015  |  Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly

Representations of physical sites of trauma in recent Australian films and art works

Listening to the long Soviet silence: trauma, memory and the Soviet experience

M Tumarkin

Book Chapter  |  2014

Trauma, memory and the Soviet experience

This Narrated Life: the Limits of Storytelling

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2014  |  Griffith Review

We are obsessed with narrative as the answer to just about every question, but what are the limits of storytelling?

Mark Hilton

M Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2013

The Beast, The Accent

M Tumarkin

Book Chapter  |  2013

Migrant writers reflect on what it means to be a NESB writer in Australia

Melbourne Magistrates Court, April 2013

M Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2013

Sublime and Profane: Our Contemporary Obsession with Food

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2012  |  Kill Your Darlings

Examination of Australia's fixation on food

Instructions for Cutting and Tearing

M Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2012

The Afterlife of Books

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2012  |  Meanjin -Carlton-

Otherland A Journey with My Daughter

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2011

Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-..

Beyond truth and justice: the path to healing

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2011  |  Griffith Review

Diaries of the Afterlife

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2011  |  Australian Literary Review

Grief memoirs can crash through a mental block in our culture

The Whisperer in the Jungle

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2011  |  Meanjin -Carlton-

A close look at historian Orlando Figes.

Stories Without Borders

M Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2011  |  Meanjin -Carlton-

Can literature transcend Australia's moral crisis around migrants and refugees?

Courage

M TUMARKIN

Book  |  2007

Traumascapes The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy

Maria M Tumarkin

Book  |  2005

'Traumascapes are a distinctive category of places transformed physically and psychically by suffering, part of a scar tissue that..