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Lighting Dark Places
Essays on Kate Grenville
Edited by Sue Kossew
Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. XXI, 264 pp. (Cross/Cultures 131)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3285-9 Bound
ISBN: 978-90-420-3286-6 E-Book
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CC+131
This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Gren
This collection of essays includes a scholarly introduction and three new es
Her work has been the subject of some debate and this is reflected in a number of the essays published here, most particu
Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Ruth Barcan, Eleanor Collins, Alice Healy, Kwaku Larbi Korang, Sue Kossew, Kate Livett, Elizabeth McMahon, Sarah Pinto, Brigid Rooney, Lynettte Russell, Susan Sheridan.
Sue Kossew is Professor of English at Monash University. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and New Literatures Review and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on postcolonial and South African literature.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Susan Sheridan: Reading Feminism in Kate Grenville’s Fiction
Brigid Rooney: Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual
Elizabeth McMahon: Author! Author! The Two Faces of Kate Grenville
Bill Ashcroft: Madness and Power: Lilian’s Story and the Decolonized Body
Kwaku Larbi Korang: “Africa and Australia” Revisited: Reading Kate Grenville’s Joan Makes History
Ruth Barcan: “Mobility is the Key”: Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenville’s Lilian’s Story
Kate Livett: Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilian’s Story and Dreamhouse
Alice Healy: “Impossible Speech” and the Burden of Translation: Lilian’s Story from Page to Screen
Sue Kossew: Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection
Eleanor Collins: Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River
Sarah Pinto: History, Fiction and The Secret River
Lynette Russell: Learning from Each Other: Language, Authority, and Authenticity in Kate Grenville’s The Lieutenant
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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