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'From the subtropical lushness of Queensland’s Tamborine Rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Janette Turner Hospital’s characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning Scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-held secrets of her family origins. As the narrative flits between the present and the past, and truth becomes increasingly subjective, Charade weaves a rich and textural tale out of the myths of her past. This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (UQP, 2015 ed.)
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Dedication: For my father and mother, who taught me that love is rich and redemptive whatever costumes and guises it wears.
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Epigraph: 'May the legends of the men of old be lessons to the people of our time, so that a man may see those things which befell others beside himself: then he will honour and consider carefully the words and adventures of past peoples, and will reprove himself.' - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night.
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Epigraph: 'To modify the past is not to modify a single fact; it is to annul the consequences of that fact, which tends to be infinite. In other word, it involves the creation of two universal histories.' - Jorge Luis Borges: The Other Death
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Epigraph: ' I intend to examine here the memories of extreme experiences, of injuries suffered or inflicted... Once again it must be observed, mournfully, that the injury cannot be healed: it extends through time....' - Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved.
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Works about this Work
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Eight Great Australian Fictional Scientists Worth Reading about
2019
single work
— Appears in: The Conversation , 12 February 2019;'Australian scientists have led many crucial scientific breakthroughs – from the manufacturing and processing of penicillin, to the first in-vitro fertilisation pregnancy. Yet there is still a need for science to be more widely appreciated in our broader culture.' (Introduction)
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Rainforest Narratives : The Work of Janette Turner Hospital
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2009
Z1611963
2009
single work
criticism
'Rainforests evoke vivid imagery; the profusion of intertwined trees and undergrowth both invites and confounds exploration. Acclaimed writer Janette Turner Hospital conjures up a rainforest for readers by weaving threads of connection and meaning into a labyrinth of characters and plot lines. From The Ivory Swing to Orpheus Lost, Hospital's award-winning novels and short stories have challenged and intrigued readers for over twenty-five years. Hospital's books tackle complex themes of dislocation, identity, ethics and the nature of reality, wrapping around a reader like rainforest creepers, remaining attached long after the last page is turned.
In this groundbreaking work of literary criticism, David Callahan signposts and analyses the major themes scattered throughout Janette Turner Hospital's writing. Rainforest Narratives is the perfect companion to her fiction for readers and scholars alike.' -- Publisher description.
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Particles, Waves, and Stories : Janette Turner Hospital's 'Charades'
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 2007; (p. 363-380) -
Forming Feminism : Structure and Ideology in Charades and 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye'
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 29 no. 1 2003; (p. 132-141) 'Feminist Values are encoded in different ways at ... structural levels in postmodern fictional texts. Charades and A.S. Byatt's novella 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye' (1994) both 'generate structures derived in part from their source text [The Thousand and One NIghts] that provide ... a shared message about features of female life and storytelling that goes beyond the messages derivable directly from their very different plots.' (p. 132-133) -
(Be)longing in the Writing of Janette Turner Hospital : Eclipsing the Constitutive Force of Discourse
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: (In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations 2000; (p. 233-247)
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[Review] Charades
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December vol. 3 no. 12 1988; (p. 14)
— Review of Charades 1988 single work novel -
Vultures Return to Pick over the Bones of Lost Childhood
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Scotland on Sunday , 28 June 1992; (p. 38)
— Review of Charades 1988 single work novel -
About Books
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , October vol. 1 no. 1 1990; (p. 8-11)
— Review of The Kadaitcha Sung 1990 single work novel ; Reaching Tin River 1990 single work novel ; Sheep and the Diva : Stories 1990 selected work short story ; The Mighty World of Eye : Stories, Anti-Stories 1990 selected work short story criticism ; Isobars 1990 selected work short story ; Charades 1988 single work novel ; The Great World 1990 single work novel ; Flying Lessons 1990 single work novel ; Invisible Histories 1989 selected work short story poetry biography ; Marriages 1990 selected work short story ; Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs 1990 single work life story ; The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins : A Novel 1990 single work novel ; A Body of Water : A Year's Notebook 1990 selected work autobiography short story poetry diary ; Smyrna : A Novel 1989 single work novel -
[Review] Charades, Flawless, The Mountain, Painted Woman, My Father's Moon
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Phoenix Review , Spring/Summer no. 6 1990; (p. 116-119)
— Review of My Father's Moon 1989 single work novel ; Painted Woman 1989 single work novel ; Charades 1988 single work novel ; The Mountain 1989 selected work correspondence ; Flawless Jade 1989 single work novel -
Three New Fictions
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 113 1988; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Captivity Captive 1988 single work novel ; Charades 1988 single work novel ; That Fierce Virgin 1988 single work novel - y Janette Turner Hospital : Gender Issues, Landscape, Memory and Dislocation in The Ivory Swing, The Tiger in the Tiger Pit, Borderline, Charades and The Last Magician 1996 Z1038382 1996 single work thesis
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Forming Feminism : Structure and Ideology in Charades and 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye'
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 29 no. 1 2003; (p. 132-141) 'Feminist Values are encoded in different ways at ... structural levels in postmodern fictional texts. Charades and A.S. Byatt's novella 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye' (1994) both 'generate structures derived in part from their source text [The Thousand and One NIghts] that provide ... a shared message about features of female life and storytelling that goes beyond the messages derivable directly from their very different plots.' (p. 132-133) -
The Improprieties of Janette Turner Hospital : Punning in Borderline and Charades
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Borderblur : Poetry and Poetics in Contemporary Canadian Literature 1996; (p. 74-93) -
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Rainforest Narratives : The Work of Janette Turner Hospital
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2009
Z1611963
2009
single work
criticism
'Rainforests evoke vivid imagery; the profusion of intertwined trees and undergrowth both invites and confounds exploration. Acclaimed writer Janette Turner Hospital conjures up a rainforest for readers by weaving threads of connection and meaning into a labyrinth of characters and plot lines. From The Ivory Swing to Orpheus Lost, Hospital's award-winning novels and short stories have challenged and intrigued readers for over twenty-five years. Hospital's books tackle complex themes of dislocation, identity, ethics and the nature of reality, wrapping around a reader like rainforest creepers, remaining attached long after the last page is turned.
In this groundbreaking work of literary criticism, David Callahan signposts and analyses the major themes scattered throughout Janette Turner Hospital's writing. Rainforest Narratives is the perfect companion to her fiction for readers and scholars alike.' -- Publisher description.
-
Particles, Waves, and Stories : Janette Turner Hospital's 'Charades'
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 2007; (p. 363-380)
Awards
- 1989 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Fiction
- 1989 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
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cCanada,cAmericas,
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cUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- Brisbane, Queensland,
- Mount Tamborine, Tamborine area, Beaudesert - Tamborine - Rathdowney area, South East Queensland, Queensland,
- Melbourne, Victoria,