Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing [electronic resource] /
Das, Devaleena.editor.
Dasgupta, Sanjukta.editor.
This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors’ insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and activism, feminist rivalry, sexual transgressions, autobiography and art of letter writing, city space and female subjectivity, lesbianism, gender implications of spatial categories, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation and female body politics. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing tracks Australian women authors’ varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 Writing the Silence: Grieving Mothers and the Literature of War -- 2 Among the Reeds: A Lost Novel of Women’s Emancipation -- 3 Poetic Rivalry and Silent Love: Lawson’s Muse and Mary the Bard -- 4 Gothic Moods and Colonial Night Guests: Beatrice Grimshaw’s writings on Fiji -- 5 From Miles Franklin to Germaine Greer: Writing as Activism -- 6 Kate Grenville’s Transgressive Narratives -- 7 Disparate Visions: The Contesting Homefront Worlds of Gwen Harwood, Faith Richmond and Judith Wright (1939-45) -- 8 Made in Suburbia: Intra-Suburban Narratives in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction -- 9 ‘Properties of a Lady’s Pen’: The literary craft of Georgiana Molloy -- 10 Inner Space to Outer Space: Lesbian Writing in Australia -- 11 Possibilities from the Peripheries into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip -- 12 ‘The sex thing is strange’: The Queerness of Barbara Hanrahan’s Fiction -- 13 Australian Aboriginal Women’s Protest Poetry -- 14 Locating Indigenous Sovereign Spaces: Race and Womanhood in Romaine Morton's Poetry -- 15. Writing the Aboriginal Women’s Auto/biographical Experience: Jackie Huggins and Jeanine Leane -- 16 On Becoming an Australian: The Journey of Patricia Pengilley -- 17 Australianness in M. L. Skinner’s Exilic Novels -- 18 Transnation and Feminine Fluidity: New Horizon in the Fiction of Chandani Lokugé. .
This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors’ insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and activism, feminist rivalry, sexual transgressions, autobiography and art of letter writing, city space and female subjectivity, lesbianism, gender implications of spatial categories, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation and female body politics. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing tracks Australian women authors’ varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.
Literature-History and criticism.
Oriental literature.
Literature   .
Literary History.
Asian Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.