Title Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction / Sue Kossew

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 202 pages) Series Postcolonial literatures ; 10 Postcolonial literatures ; 10. Contents 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index Notes English 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 LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Australian fiction -- Women authors South African fiction (English) -- Women authors Women and literature Women -- Intellectual life Australia South Africa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0203380681 9780203380680 0203389182 9780203389188 1134448112 9781134448111 1280074108 9781280074103

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