Lighting dark places : essays on Kate Grenville / / edited by Sue Kossew.

• Superior document: Cross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 131
• TeilnehmendeR: Kossey, Sue.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 131.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 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 /; “Impossible Speech” and the Burden of Translation: Lilian’s Story from Page to Screen /; Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection /; Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River /; History, Fiction, and The Secret River /; Learning From Each Other: Language, Authority and Authenticity in Kate Grenville’s The Lieutenant /; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283034530; 9786613034533; 9042032863
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sue Kossew.

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 collection of essays includes a scholarly introduction and three new essays that reflect on Grenville’s work in relation to her approach to feminism, her role as public intellectual and her books on writing. The other nine essays provide analyses of each of her novels published to date, from the early success of Lilian’s Story and Dreamhouse to the most recently published novel, The Lieutenant . Her work has been the subject of some debate and this is reflected in a number of the essays published here, most particularly with regard to her most successful novel to date, The Secret River . This intellectual engagement with important contemporary issues is a mark of Grenville’s fiction, testament to her own analysis of the vital role of writers in uncertain times. She has suggested that “writers have ways of going into the darkest places, taking readers with them and coming out safely.” This volume attests to Grenville’s own significance as a writer in a time of change and to the value of her novels as indices of that change and in “lighting dark places.”