04049oam 2200805I 450 991078406220332120230617003917.01-134-44810-40-203-38918-21-134-44811-21-280-07410-80-203-38068-110.4324/9780203380680 (CKB)1000000000256318(EBL)182387(OCoLC)475895764(SSID)ssj0000313741(PQKBManifestationID)11254643(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313741(PQKBWorkID)10358778(PQKB)10483784(MiAaPQ)EBC182387(Au-PeEL)EBL182387(CaPaEBR)ebr10100469(CaONFJC)MIL7410(OCoLC)56565450(EXLCZ)99100000000025631820180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWriting woman, writing place contemporary Australian and South African fiction /Sue KossewLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (215 p.)Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;10Description based upon print version of record.0-415-41859-3 0-415-28649-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 historyA state of violence: the politics of truth and reconciliationBeyond the national; Exile and belonging; Notes; Bibliography; IndexContemporary 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 WritRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;10.Australian fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismSouth African fiction (English)Women authorsHistory and criticismComparative literatureAustralian and South AfricanComparative literatureSouth African and AustralianWomenSouth AfricaIntellectual lifeWomenAustraliaIntellectual lifeWomen and literatureSouth AfricaWomen and literatureAustraliaAustralian fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.South African fiction (English)Women authorsHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureAustralian and South African.Comparative literatureSouth African and Australian.WomenIntellectual life.WomenIntellectual life.Women and literatureWomen and literature823/.914099287/0968Kossew Sue.1539328MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784062203321Writing woman, writing place3790197UNINA