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Chargement... Southerly: Mid-century women writerspar Elizabeth McMahon
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Appartient à la sérieSoutherly (72:1)
Mid-century women writers re-considers Australian women writing after the cataclysm of World War II, from within post-war culture; women demonstrating the agency of writing fiction before the formal politicisation of feminism. This issue assembles essays on numerous of these writers, presented in their shared historical context and through the rubrics and perspectives of the present. The issue includes essays on Eleanor Dark, Eve Langley, Jessica Anderson, Christina Stead, Dorothy Hewett, Thea Astley and Elizabeth Harrower. Some of the essays deal with the late works of established writers, such as Helen O'Reilly's discussion of Eleanor Dark's last published work, Lantana Lane and Elizabeth Treep's analysis of Eve Langley's unpublished novel Bancroft House, while Karen Lamb's essay on Thea Astley provides a keen appreciation of a new woman writer dealing with the criticism of her peers. The essays range from readings of individual works to broader assessments of writers' oeuvre, and from historical fiction to novels depicting the radical changes in Australian life from the 1960s. There are also two review - essays on new studies of Elizabeth Jolley and Shirley Hazzard. This line-up constitutes a very significant volume on a group of writers often overlooked in the various categorisations of Australian literature. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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There's a lot in this issue:
• a new Jennifer Maiden poem, ‘George Jeffreys 13: George Jeffreys woke up in Beijing’. In it, George and his kind of girlfriend Clare continue their series of visits to troubled locales, meeting with a recently released Chinese dissident in the Forbidden City where they are joined by Confucius and the Duke of Zhou.
• Fiona Morrison’s excellent essay, ‘Leaving the Party: Dorothy Hewett, literary politics and the long 1960s’. Like many Communists, Hewett stayed in the Party after the 1956 invasion of Hungary despite serious misgivings, then left when the tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1968. In effect this essay traces the movement of her mind between those two events as revealed in her writing. Strikingly though, it doesn’t refer to either Hungary or Czechoslovakia, restricting itself to literary matters.
• Karen Lamb’s ‘“Yrs Patrick”: Thea Astley’s brush with timely advice on “the rackety career of novel writing”’, an inside look at the relationship between Astley and other writers, with a focus on a particularly unsparing letter from Patrick White. Karen Lamb is writing a biography of Astley. Reading her account of Astley’s approach to friendship, I wondered if biographers don’t run the risk of coming to dislike their subjects through knowing too much.
• David Musgrave’s review of Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray’s Australian Poetry Since 1788. In a measured and judicious manner, Musgrave joins the line of anthologists, poets and publishers who give this anthology the thumbs down. (Incidentally, I note that neither David Brooks, Southerly‘s co-editor, nor Kate Lilley, its poetry editor, got a guernsey in the anthology, but that didn’t stop them from including an elegant narrative poem by Gray elsewhere in this issue.)
• Helen O’Reilly’s ‘“Dazzling” Dark – Lantana Lane (1959)’ and Susan Sheridan’s ‘“Cranford at Moreton Bay”: Jessica Anderson’s The Commandant‘ do a good job of PFR for their respective subject.
• abundant rich poetry, by B. R. Dionysius, Margaret Bradstock, Andrew Taylor, Geoff Page, Peter Minter and others.
• fifty pages of reviews, including John Kinsella on David Brooks’s The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry and Pam Brown on Kate Lilley’s Ladylike.