Lighting dark places : essays on Kate Grenville / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Cross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 131 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Reading Feminism in Kate Grenville’s Fiction / Susan Sheridan
- Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual / Brigid Rooney
- Author, Author!: The Two Faces of Kate Grenville / Elizabeth Mcmahon
- Madness and Power: Lilian’s Story and the Decolonized Body / Bill Ashcroft
- “Africa and Australia” Revisited: Reading Kate Grenville’s Joan Makes History / Kwaku Larbi Korang
- “Mobility is the Key”: Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenville’s Lilian’s Story / Ruth Barcan
- Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilian’s Story and Dreamhouse / Kate Livett
- “Impossible Speech” and the Burden of Translation: Lilian’s Story from Page to Screen / Alice Healy
- Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection / Sue Kossew
- Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River / Eleanor Collins
- History, Fiction, and The Secret River / Sarah Pinto
- Learning From Each Other: Language, Authority and Authenticity in Kate Grenville’s The Lieutenant / Lynette Russell
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.