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

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: place, space and gender......Page 14
Contemporary Australian fiction......Page 30
Introduction: post-bicentennial perspectives......Page 32
The violence of representation: rewriting \'The Drover\'s Wife\'......Page 37
\'Gone bush\': refiguring women and the bush......Page 56
Another country: the \'terrible darkness\' of country towns......Page 69
Learning to belong: nation and reconciliation......Page 86
Contemporary South African fiction......Page 108
Introduction: new subjectivities......Page 110
\'A white woman\'s words\': the politics of representation and commitment......Page 116
Rewriting the farm novel......Page 133
Revisioning history......Page 148
A state of violence: the politics of truth and reconciliation......Page 163
Beyond the national......Page 176
Exile and belonging......Page 178
Notes......Page 191
Bibliography......Page 196
Index......Page 210