Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Writing Silence: Grieving Mothers and the Literature of War....Pages 37-59
 Among the Reeds: A Lost Novel of Women’s Emancipation....Pages 61-73
Poetic Rivalry and Silent Love: Lawson’s Muse and Mary the Bard....Pages 75-92
Gothic Moods and Colonial Night Guests: Beatrice Grimshaw’s Writings on Fiji....Pages 93-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
From Miles Franklin to Germaine Greer: Writing as Activism....Pages 109-126
Kate Grenville’s Transgressive Narratives....Pages 127-140
Disparate Visions: The Contested Homefront Worlds of Gwen Harwood, Faith Richmond and Judith Wright (1939–1945)....Pages 141-161
Made in Suburbia: Intra-suburban Narratives in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction....Pages 163-179
“The Inexhaustible Properties of a Lady’s Pen”: The Literary Craft of Georgiana Molloy....Pages 181-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
From Inner Space to Outer Space: Lesbian Writing in Australia....Pages 199-212
Possibilities from the Peripheries into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip ....Pages 213-226
“The Sex Thing Is Strange”: The Queerness of Barbara Hanrahan’s Fiction....Pages 227-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Australian Aboriginal Women’s Protest Poetry....Pages 245-259
Locating Indigenous Sovereign Spaces: Race and Womanhood in Romaine Moreton’s Poetry....Pages 261-273
Writing the Aboriginal Women’s Auto/Biographical Experience: Jackie Huggins and Jeanine Leane....Pages 275-289
On Becoming an Australian: The Journey of Patricia Pengilley....Pages 291-307
Australianness in M. L. Skinner’s Exilic Novels....Pages 309-321
Transnation and Feminine Fluidity: New Horizon in the Fiction of Chandani Lokugé....Pages 323-336
Back Matter....Pages 337-353