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Author Kossew, Sue.

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

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 202 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Postcolonial literatures ; 10
Postcolonial literatures ; 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
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.
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Subject Australian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Australian fiction -- Women authors.
Australian fiction.
South African fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
South African fiction (English) -- Women authors.
South African fiction (English)
Comparative literature -- Australian and South African.
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature -- South African and Australian.
Women -- South Africa -- Intellectual life.
Women.
South Africa.
Intellectual life.
Women -- Australia -- Intellectual life.
Australia.
Women and literature -- South Africa.
Women and literature.
Women and literature -- Australia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Kossew, Sue. Writing woman, writing place. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415286492 (DLC) 2003046896 (OCoLC)52208428
ISBN 0203380681 (electronic book)
9780203380680 (electronic book)
0415286492 (Cloth)