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Included in the 1998 White Raven's Catalogue compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. Special mention.
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Works about this Work
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Isobelle Carmody : Red Queen of Fantasy
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 33 no. 1 2018; (p. 12-14) After her room-lighting smile and greeting, the first thing Isobelle Carmody says when we meet in Sydney for Oz ComicCon is , I love learning new things. This is evident from the vivacity and depth of her understanding and engagement with important philosophical questions. She is a whirlwind of enthusiasm and erudition. (Introduction) -
Greylands by Isobelle Carmody
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , October 2012;
— Review of Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
Lyn Linning Looks at Reprints to Enjoy Again and Introduce to a New Readership
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 27 no. 5 2012; (p. 41)
— Review of Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel ; Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
Fiction : Pick of the Week
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 13 October 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 October 2012; (p. 32) The Canberra Times , 13 October 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
Fragile Selves : Constructing Identity in Novels by Margaret Clark, Nette Hilton and Isobel [sic] Carmody
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 14 no. 1 2004; (p. 34-39)
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[Review] Greylands
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 41 no. 4 1997; (p. 32)
— Review of Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
Fiction : Pick of the Week
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 13 October 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 October 2012; (p. 32) The Canberra Times , 13 October 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
Lyn Linning Looks at Reprints to Enjoy Again and Introduce to a New Readership
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 27 no. 5 2012; (p. 41)
— Review of Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel ; Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
Sensitive Story About Teenage Suicide
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 1997; (p. 18)
— Review of Hothouse Flowers 1997 single work novel ; Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction ; Slow Burn 1997 single work novel -
Towers of Babble
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 January 1998; (p. 11)
— Review of Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction ; The Blue Feather 1997 single work novel ; Under the Cat's Eye 1997 single work novel ; Ziggurat 1997 single work novel -
Fragile Selves : Constructing Identity in Novels by Margaret Clark, Nette Hilton and Isobel [sic] Carmody
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 14 no. 1 2004; (p. 34-39) -
Exciting Writing : Isobelle Carmody
1998
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 May 1998; (p. 4-5) -
'As If This Were Narnia or Somewhere' : What's Real(ly) Fantasy? An Exploration of John Marsden's 'Tomorrow, When the War Began' and Isobelle Carmody's 'Greylands'
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 8 no. 1 1998; (p. 18-24) Mayers is interested in examining the symbiotic relationship between realism and fantasy, which she sees as a 'hybrid twinning of two constructs' rather than two discrete and opposing genres (18). Setting up a comparative reading between Marsden's Tomorrow When the War Began and Carmody's Greylands, Mayers contends that Marsden's novel, 'conflates future and past tense' in ways that locate it in the realm of 'speculative fantasy' despite the narrative's dicourse which situates events as 'close to reality' (19). The result is a narrative which according to Mayers, 'negates any solid compatibilty between the two genres [fantasy / realism] and privileges their binary opposition' in ways that manipulate the reader to accept the homogonenized adolescent narrative voice as a reflection of 'real' adolescence experience in contemporary society (20-21). On the other hand, she reads Carmody's novel as one that deftly intergrates the two genres by blurring the boundaries between fantasy and realism in a narrative that 'shifts comfortably between incident and imagination' and enables readers to 'make connections between their experience of dreams and of reality' (21). -
Isobelle Carmody : Red Queen of Fantasy
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 33 no. 1 2018; (p. 12-14) After her room-lighting smile and greeting, the first thing Isobelle Carmody says when we meet in Sydney for Oz ComicCon is , I love learning new things. This is evident from the vivacity and depth of her understanding and engagement with important philosophical questions. She is a whirlwind of enthusiasm and erudition. (Introduction) -
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Mother What Art Thou? : A Study of the Depiction of Mother Figures in Recent Australian and New Zealand Fiction for Teenagers
Perth
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2003
18159916
2003
single work
thesis
'This thesis is a study of the representations of mothers and mother figures as found in five contemporary (published between 1984 and 1999) novels for teenagers. The focus is on western constructions of motherhood, as both normalising and universalising discourses. Utilising a variety of critical approaches this thesis examines the socio-cultural issues present in the novels in conjunction with western models of maternity. This study argues the category of mother is interdependent upon the category of child. As children's literature often focuses on the development of the child, the mother figures are often read as the “unconscious” of the texts. I examine the extent to which the mother figures are given a "subject-in-processness" (Lucas, 1998, p.39) subjectivity. The texts considered are The Changeover (First published in 1984) by Margaret Mahy; Greylands (1997) by lsobelle Carmody; Speaking to Miranda (First published in 1990) by Caroline Macdonald: Touching earth lightly (1996) by Margo Lanagan and Closed, Stranger (1999) by Kate De Goldi. In part, the selection of the texts has been based upon the various and multifaceted relationships between the mothers and the children. I use the Mahy text as a means to establish selected mother and, to a lesser degree, child characteristics. Some comparisons are made with this sole text of the 19805, in order to ascertain if there has been an evolution in the articulation of mother, figures in the 1990s. This study does not adopt a survey approach nor does it claim that the five novels present all the categories of "mother". Rather it addresses categories such as, mother as nurturer, as sexual being and, importantly, the dichotomy of the “good/bad" mother. Within western discourses of maternity, this latter category is still used as a model by which to label women who mother. This study considers the stability of this binary within the novels. This thesis relies upon close reading of the primary texts. The emphasis is on critical approaches that draw attention to contexts, with particular emphasis on the socio-cultural issues present in each particular novel. My readings suggest that there is the possibility for engagement with the texts' social content/comment, in conjunction with the representations of western models of maternity. I draw from a variety of motherhood discourses and theoretical approaches, including amongst others, the work of Luce Irigaray, HeIene Cixous, Judith Hennan, Martha Fineman, Rose Lucas, and Robyn McCallum.'
Source: Abstract.
Awards
- 1997 joint winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Best Novel