Sue Kossew

Writing Woman, Writing Place (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134448111
• Artikelnr.: 43071324

Autorenporträt

Sue Kossew was born in South Africa and spent her childhood in Zambia. She lived and taught in England and has been in Australia since 1987. She is a senior lecturer in the School of English at the University of New South Wales. Her previous publications have been in the field of South African and Australian literature, notably on J.M. Coetzee, André Brink and Nadine Gordimer.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction: Place, Space and Gender Part One: 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 3. Another Country: the 'Terrible Darkness'
of Country Towns 4. Learning to Belong: Nation and Reconciliation Part Two:
Contemporary South African Fiction Introduction: New Subjectivities 5. 'A
White Woman's Words': The Politics of Representation and Commitment 6.
Rewriting the Farm Novel 7. Revisioning History 8. A State of Violence: The
Politics of Truth and Reconciliation 9. Beyond the National: Exile and
Belonging in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and Eva Sallis's The City of
Sealions