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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing
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'A Kingdom and a Place of Exile: Postcolonial Women Writers is a collection of essays by Dorothy Jones on postcolonial texts written by or about women. [...] Her essays examine a diverse array of texts, prinicipally by writers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean and India. Issues of migration, diaspora and race sit, often uneasily, alongside nation-building, masculinist settler myths and imperialist regimes in the postcolonial environments of these works. Many of Jones essays concern themselves with physical location and mapping as well as with imaginative territories inhabited by writers and readers.' [From the book's Introduction by Melissa Boyde, p. 5]

Contents

* Contents derived from the Ultimo, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:University of Wollongong Press , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Melissa Boyde , single work criticism (p. 5-9)
'A Kingdom and a Place of Exile' : Women Writers and the World of Nature, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 10-23)
The Goddess, the Artist and the Spinster, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 24-35)
Mapping and Mythmaking : Women Writers and the Australian Legend, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 36-52)
Flies in the Milk, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism biography (p. 53-61)
Recording the Gaps, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 62-69)
The Postcolonial Belly Laugh : Appetite and Its Suppression, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 70-81)
Fabricating Texts of Empire, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 82-95)
Cultivating Empire : The Gardens Women Write, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 96-105)
Embroidering the Nation, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 106-119)
The Eloquent Sari, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism

'As part of India's aesthetically rich and politically complex textile tradition, saris are abundantly endowed with "the social life of things" as well as participating in the language of clothes. This article considers its representation in some Indian literary works as a focus for exploring acts of political and personal resistance against hegemonic authority. The sari can serve simultaneously as a sign both of the nation and of Indian womanhood while its rich array of associations has made it a valuable focal point for a number of Indian writers, both when representing major political events and when portraying the complexities of personal relationships and family life.'  (Publication abstract)

(p. 120-130)
Bottling the Forbidden Fruit: Marion Halligan's Fiction, Dorothy Jones , single work criticism (p. 149-157)
The Antipodes of Empire : An Autobiographical Note, Dorothy Jones , single work autobiography (p. 169-175)

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Works about this Work

Writing About Women's Writing 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury , 22 February 2011; (p. 24)
Introduction Melissa Boyde , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 5-9)
Introduction Melissa Boyde , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 5-9)
Writing About Women's Writing 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury , 22 February 2011; (p. 24)
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