AustLit
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Women's Writing in English: India and Australia is a collection of essay which sets out to open the possible limits of the women's writing as a literary as well as social discourse. Moving beyond the plot of so-called critical practice it has come to represent a complex web of meaning produced through multiple strategies of reading and interpreting it. The present collection of critical essays represents myriad, interesting and insightful explorations on textuality and inter-textuality of the women's writing of India and Australia, its meaning in recent critical practice. Indian and Australian Women's writing have become intellectual curiosity these days. The contributors of this timely anthology have explored the subject referring to different genres in connection with their traditional and radical interpretation into consideration.' (Publication summary)
Notes
-
Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
- 'No Place for a Woman' : A Brief Tour of Janette Turner Hospital's Writing, single work criticism (p. 1-16)
-
The Female Space through Indian and Australian Poetic Lenses,
single work
criticism
(p. 17-26)The author argues that 'some female voices in India and Australia [...] are quite similar regarding their femininity though their modes of expression differ' (p. 17).
- Ethel Anderson on India, single work criticism (p. 27-38)
-
Multiculturalism in Change of Skies and The Time of the Peacock : Protest and Acquiescence in the Novels of Yasmine Gooneratne and Mena Abdullah,
single work
criticism
(p. 67-74)Patra argues that 'Australian identity means many identities and has attained a new kind of sophistication and broad tolerance which thousands of years of world history have so far seldom managed to achieve'.
- Tales They Tell : Early Australian and Indian Women's Travel Writing, single work criticism (p. 99-112)
- Structure against Place, Fate and Cruelty : Deplorable State of Bush Women from the Works of Barbara Baynton, single work criticism (p. 149-156)
- Shellshocks and Aftershocks : Scars of the Holocaust Problematizing Identity in Elizabeth Jolley's Milk and Honey, single work criticism (p. 165-170)
-
Nova Peris : Telling a Personal Story,
single work
criticism
(p. 171-178)'Telling one's story creates a space for oneself and by standing up to tell her story, Nova Peris, too, has carved this unique personal space. This article looks at how far Nova Peris has successfully used this space to not only present her life but also to represent her family, community, country and her own ideas about the various extant issues in her country' (p. 171).
