| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cross/cultures ; 131
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Cross/cultures ; 131.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-250) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Reading Feminism in Kate Grenville's Fiction; Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual; Author! Author! The Two Faces of Kate Grenville; Madness and Power: Lilian's Story and the Decolonized Body; "Africa and Australia" Revisited: Reading Kate Grenville's Joan Makes History; "Mobility is the Key": Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story; Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilian's Story and Dreamhouse. |
| Summary |
This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Grenville, one of Australia's most important contemporary writers. Grenville has been acclaimed for her novels, winning numerous national and international prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her novels are marked by sharp observations of outsider figures who are often under pressure to conform to society's norms. More recently, she has written novels set in Australia's past, revisiting and re-imagining colonial encounters between settlers and Indigenous Australians. This. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grenville, Kate, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Grenville, Kate, 1950- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Grenville, Kate, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Kossew, Sue.
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| ISBN |
9789042032866 (electronic book) |
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9042032863 (electronic book) |
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9042032855 (hardback) |
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9789042032859 (hardback) |
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9789042032859 |
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