Writing Woman, Writing Place - Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction (Hardcover)

Contents:
General Introduction: Place, Space and Gender Part One: Contemporary Australian Fiction Introduction: Post-Bicentennial Perspectives 1. The Violence of Representation: Rewriting 'The Drover's Wife' 2. 'Gone Bush': Refiguring Women and the Bush 3. Another Country: the 'Terrible Darkness' of Country Towns 4. Learning to Belong: Nation and Reconciliation Part Two: Contemporary South African Fiction Introduction: New Subjectivities 5. 'A White Woman's Words': The Politics of Representation and Commitment 6. Rewriting the Farm Novel 7. Revisioning History 8. A State of Violence: The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation 9. Beyond the National: Exile and Belonging in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and Eva Sallis's The City of Sealions