It is generally held that the short stories of the Australian writer Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987) do not express political values or deal with social issues, but are confined to the exploration of personal concerns. The author herself referred to her short stories as subjective ‘indulgences’, and this evaluation has largely been accepted by commentators. In this paper I challenge this interpretation and argue that the political pressures of the later 1930s seeped or forced themselves into her short fiction and, further, that several of her most interesting stories were directly instigated by and concerned with contemporary political and social questions. I further suggest that as her own political commitment intensified under the pressures of fascism and war, her original devotion to practising art, untainted by propaganda, came under severe pressure.

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“对自由的本能”：玛乔丽·巴纳德短篇小说中的政治暗流

人们普遍认为，澳大利亚作家玛乔丽·巴纳德（Marjorie Barnard，1897-1987）的短篇小说不表达政治价值观或处理社会问题，而仅限于对个人关切的探索。作者本人将她的短篇小说称为主观的“放纵”，这种评价在很大程度上被评论家所接受。在这篇论文中，我挑战了这种解释，并认为 1930 年代后期的政治压力渗入或强迫自己进入她的短篇小说，此外，她的几个最有趣的故事直接受当代政治和社会问题的煽动并与之相关。我进一步建议，随着她自己的政治承诺在法西斯主义和战争的压力下愈演愈烈，她最初对艺术实践的热爱，不受宣传的影响，