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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819469803321
• Autore: Kossew Sue
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-44810-4; 0-203-38918-2; 1-134-44811-2; 1-280-07410-8; 0-203-38068-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Collana: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 10
• Disciplina: 823/.914099287/0968
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; A state of violence: the politics of truth and reconciliationBeyond the national; Exile and belonging; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity has been constructed through national stereotypes and representations. This book describes and analyses some contemporary responses to 'writing woman, writing place' through close readings of particular texts that explore these issues.Three main strands run through the readings offered in Writ