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Kelly-Elise Oliver Kelly-Elise Oliver i(A110960 works by) (a.k.a. Kelly Oliver)
Gender: Female
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1 [Review] Exploring Suburbia : The Suburbs in the Contemporary Australian Novel Kelly-Elise Oliver , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of Exploring Suburbia: The Suburbs in the Contemporary Australian Novel Nathanael O'Reilly , 2012 multi chapter work criticism
1 Tiny Leaf Men and Other Tales From Outer Suburbia : Re-Presenting the Suburb in Australian Children’s Literature Kelly-Elise Oliver , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations Into Children's Literature , vol. 21 no. 1 2011; (p. 57-66) 'This paper explores how, through word and image, Tan's Tales From Outer Suburbia challenges stereotypical representations of the suburban. Typically, suburban spaces have been represented as aesthetically bland, mundane, and ornamental. Tan takes these tropes and ironically re-deploys them anew, and in doing so undermines anti-suburban sentiment, which has dominated Australian literary and popular culture.

Although the notion of anti-suburbanism in Australian fiction has been well documented, its presence in children's literature has received far less attention. As a case study, Tales From Outer Suburbia, signals the ability of children's literature to present more positive representations of suburbia because of its inherent commitment to the socialisation of children, which is prioritised over the tradition of anti-suburbanism.' (Author's abstract)
1 Untitled i "To know ourselves", Kelly-Elise Oliver , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Heart of Each Reflection : Texts in Search of Identity 2005; (p. 52)
1 Five Kelly-Elise Oliver , 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: The Heart of Each Reflection : Texts in Search of Identity 2005; (p. 51)
1 Untitled i "We photograph to remember", Kelly-Elise Oliver , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Heart of Each Reflection : Texts in Search of Identity 2005; (p. 50)
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