Claiming Space For Australian Women S Writing

Author : Devaleena Das,Sanjukta Dasgupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319504001

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Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing by Devaleena Das,Sanjukta Dasgupta Pdf

This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors’ insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and activism, feminist rivalry, sexual transgressions, autobiography and art of letter writing, city space and female subjectivity, lesbianism, gender implications of spatial categories, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation and female body politics. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing tracks Australian women authors’ varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.

Author : Devaleena Das,Colette Morrow
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813587868

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Unveiling Desire by Devaleena Das,Colette Morrow Pdf

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists the temptation to then focus on the veil, geisha, sati, or Muslim women’s oppression without exploring Eastern women’s sexuality beyond these contexts. The chapters cover instead mind/body sexual politics, patriarchal cultural constructs, the anatomy of sex and power in relation to myth and culture, denigration of female anatomy, and gender performativity. From Persepolis to Bollywood, and from fairy tales to crime fiction, the contributors to Unveiling Desire show how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global.

Author : Sue Kossew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781134448104

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Writing Woman, Writing Place by Sue Kossew Pdf

Contemporary 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 Writing Woman, Writing Place - the theme of violence and the violence of representational practice itself, the revisioning of history, and the writers' consciousness of their own paradoxical subject-position within the nation as both privileged and excluded. Texts by established writers from both Australia and South Africa are examined in this context, including international prize-winning novelists Kate Grenville and Thea Astley from Australia and Nadine Gordimer from South Africa, as well as those by newly-emerging and younger writers. This book will be of essential interest to students and academics within the fields of Postcolonial Literature and Women's Writing.

Author : Debra Adelaide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015079939008

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Australian Women Writers by Debra Adelaide Pdf

Author : Anne Brewster,Sue Kossew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351606905

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Rethinking the Victim by Anne Brewster,Sue Kossew Pdf

This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women’s agencies. In doing so, it provides a theoretical context for the increasing number of contemporary literary works by Australian women writers that directly address gendered violence, an issue that has taken on urgent social and political currency. By analysing Australian women’s literary representations of gendered violence, this book rethinks victimhood and agency, particularly from a feminist perspective. One of its major innovations is that it examines mainstream Australian women’s writing alongside that of Indigenous and minoritised women. In doing so it provides insights into the interconnectedness of Australia’s diverse settler, Indigenous and diasporic histories in chapters that examine intimate partner violence, violence against Indigenous women and girls, family violence and violence against children, and the war and political violence.

Author : Alison Blunt,Gillian Rose
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0898624983

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Writing Women and Space by Alison Blunt,Gillian Rose Pdf

Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place.

Author : Debra Adelaide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000058995

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A Bright and Fiery Troop by Debra Adelaide Pdf

From the first novel published in mainland Australia in 1838 women have been writing it for themselves. Among them are poets, prolific novelists such as Rosa Praed, botanists like Louisa Atkinson. From household names to obscurity, this book rediscovers the rich treasures of Australia's literary tradition. It is the first critical analysis of the major Australian women writers of the 19th century.

Author : Dale Spender
Publisher : Spinifex Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034784079

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The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing by Dale Spender Pdf

Author : Kit de Waal
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783527472

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Common People by Kit de Waal Pdf

Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working class. Features original pieces from Damian Barr, Malorie Blackman, Lisa Blower, Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Stuart Maconie, Chris McCrudden, Lisa McInerney, Paul McVeigh, Daljit Nagra, Dave O’Brien, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Anita Sethi, Tony Walsh, Alex Wheatle and more.

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811238045

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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright Pdf

Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.

Author : Heather Kerr,Amanda Nettelbeck
Publisher : ISBS
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1876268115

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The Space Between by Heather Kerr,Amanda Nettelbeck Pdf

Twenty-three essays explore the postmodern space between fiction and criticism. Employing a fairly fluid definition of fictocriticism, the editors have gathered the pieces to show the way that the melding of subjective and objective views and the blurring of categories are being used by Australian w

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356843387

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Pdf

A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women’s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages. To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.

Author : Margaret Henderson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039108476

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Marking Feminist Times by Margaret Henderson Pdf

With its challenge to nearly every facet of Australian society and culture, the Australian women's movement has achieved much in a short period of time. And it has attracted controversy: fiery denunciation and equally passionate loyalty. This book explores how such a revolutionary social movement remembers its past. The women's movement has always recognised the political importance of history, narrative, and language to changing the way we think, and hence to changing the world. How then does feminism mark its own past times, and what stories does it tell of the campaigns, struggles, defeats, victories, and activists? What is remembered and what is forgotten? How do its narratives of its recent history counter those told by the mainstream culture? By reading novels, film, television, autobiographies, newspaper and magazine articles, and academic histories Marking Feminist Times traces the making of a feminist collective memory: the reasons for its emergence, the shapes taken, and the narratives that recur. And in so doing, this book reveals a feminist collective memory haunted by the early loss of an authentically revolutionary movement.

Author : Katie Hansord
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785272707

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Colonial Australian Women Poets by Katie Hansord Pdf

My book traces the significant poetic and political contributions made by non-canonical women poets, situating women's poetry both in colonial Australian print culture and in wider imperial and transnational contexts. Women poets in colonial Australia have tended to be represented as marginal and isolated figures or absent. This study intervenes by demonstrating an alternative networked tradition of transnational feminist poetics and politics beyond and around emergent masculine nationalism, particularly within newspapers and periodical print culture. Without the inclusion of periodical literature, women’s poetry in Australia during the colonial period would appear to have been fairly limited. When periodical literature is taken into account, this picture is radically altered, and poets emerge as consistent contributors, often across a variety of newspapers and journals, who were well-known, influential and connected with political figures and literary circles. In examining this poetry in the original context of the newspapers and journals, the political intervention and the reception of that poetry is made much more apparent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Australian drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110563975

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Australasian Drama Studies by Anonim Pdf