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Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction

Author: Sue Kossew
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Writing Woman, Writing Place analyses the ways in which contemporary women writers in the two 'settler' colonies of Australia and South Africa explore notions of self, identity and place in their fiction. Writing Woman, Writing Place will be of essential interest to students and academics within the fields of postcolonial literature and women's writing."--BOOK JACKET.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sue Kossew
ISBN: 0415286492 9780415286497 9780203380680 0203380681
OCLC Number: 123305504
Description: 202 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: place, space and gender --
Pt. 1. Contemporary Australian fiction --
Introduction: post-bicentennial perspectives --
1. The violence of representation: rewriting 'The Drover's Wife' --
2. 'Gone bush': refiguring women and the bush: Kate Grenville's The Idea of Perfection and Eva Sallis' Hiam --
3. Another country: the 'terrible darkness' of country towns: Thea Astley's Drylands and Gillian Mears' Fineflour and The Mint Lawn --
4. Learning to belong: nation and reconciliation Jo Dutton's On the Edge of Red and Heather Grace's Heart of Light --
Pt. 2. Contemporary South African fiction --
Introduction: new subjectivities --
5. 'A white woman's words': the politics of representation and commitment
Responsibility: Sue Kossew.

Abstract:

"Writing Woman, Writing Place analyses the ways in which contemporary women writers in the two 'settler' colonies of Australia and South Africa explore notions of self, identity and place in their fiction. Writing Woman, Writing Place will be of essential interest to students and academics within the fields of postcolonial literature and women's writing."--BOOK JACKET.

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