Claiming Space for Australian Womens Writing [Hardcover]

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 Womens Writing tracks Australian women authors varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.

1 Writing the Silence: Grieving Mothers and the Literature of War.- 2 Among the Reeds: A Lost Novel of Womens Emancipation.- 3 Poetic Rivalry and Silent Love: Lawsons Muse and Mary the Bard.- 4 Gothic Moods and Colonial Night Guests: Beatrice Grimshaws writings on Fiji.- 5 From Miles Franklin to Germaine Greer: Writing as Activism.- 6 Kate Grenvilles 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 Womens Fiction.- 9 Properties of a Ladys Pen: The literary craft of Georgiana Molloy.- 10 Inner Space to Outer Space: Lesbian Writing in Australia.- 11 Possibilities from the Peripheries into lĂ)