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Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction  Cover Image E-book E-book

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

Kossew, Sue. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781280074103
  • ISBN: 1280074108
  • ISBN: 9781134448111
  • ISBN: 1134448112
  • ISBN: 9780203389188
  • ISBN: 0203389182
  • ISBN: 9780203380680
  • ISBN: 0203380681
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 202 pages)
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  • Publisher: London ; New York : 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.
Restrictions on Access Note:
NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:
English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Australian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
South African fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Comparative literature -- Australian and South African
Comparative literature -- South African and Australian
Women -- South Africa -- Intellectual life
Women -- Australia -- Intellectual life
Women and literature -- South Africa
Women and literature -- Australia
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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