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Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction / Sue Kossew.
This book 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0203380681
- ISBN: 9780203380680
- ISBN: 0203389182
- ISBN: 9780203389188
- ISBN: 1134448112
- ISBN: 9781134448111
- ISBN: 1280074108
- ISBN: 9781280074103
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 202 pages)
- Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2004.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: place, space and gender; Contemporary Australian fiction; Introduction: post-bicentennial perspectives; The violence of representation: rewriting 'The Drover's Wife'; 'Gone bush': refiguring women and the bush; Another country: the 'terrible darkness' of country towns; Learning to belong: nation and reconciliation; Contemporary South African fiction; Introduction: new subjectivities; 'A white woman's words': the politics of representation and commitment; Rewriting the farm novel; Revisioning history. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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