Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Colección: | Postcolonial literatures ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


