Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction

by Kossew Sue and Sue Kossew

Book Overview

Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity has been constructed through national stereotypes and representations. This book describes and analyses some contemporary responses to 'writing woman, writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415286492
• ISBN13: 9780415286497
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.2"