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This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Grenville, one of Australiaâs most important contemporary writers. Grenville has been acclaimed for her novels, winning numerous national and international prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writersâ Prize. Her novels are marked by sharp observations of outsider figures who are often under pressure to conform to societyâs norms. More recently, she has written novels set in Australiaâs past, revisiting and re-imagining colonial encounters between settlers and Indigenous Australians.
This collection of essays includes a scholarly introduction and three new essays that reflect on Grenvilleâs work in relation to her approach to feminism, her role as public intellectual and her books on writing. The other nine essays provide analyses of each of her novels published to date, from the early success of Lilianâs Story and Dreamhouse to the most recently published novel, The Lieutenant.
Her work has been the subject of some debate and this is reflected in a number of the essays published here, most particularly with regard to her most successful novel to date, The Secret River. This intellectual engagement with important contemporary issues is a mark of Grenvilleâs fiction, testament to her own analysis of the vital role of writers in uncertain times. She has suggested that âwriters have ways of going into the darkest places, taking readers with them and coming out safely.â This volume attests to Grenvilleâs own significance as a writer in a time of change and to the value of her novels as indices of that change and in âlighting dark places.â
This collection of essays includes a scholarly introduction and three new essays that reflect on Grenvilleâs work in relation to her approach to feminism, her role as public intellectual and her books on writing. The other nine essays provide analyses of each of her novels published to date, from the early success of Lilianâs Story and Dreamhouse to the most recently published novel, The Lieutenant.
Her work has been the subject of some debate and this is reflected in a number of the essays published here, most particularly with regard to her most successful novel to date, The Secret River. This intellectual engagement with important contemporary issues is a mark of Grenvilleâs fiction, testament to her own analysis of the vital role of writers in uncertain times. She has suggested that âwriters have ways of going into the darkest places, taking readers with them and coming out safely.â This volume attests to Grenvilleâs own significance as a writer in a time of change and to the value of her novels as indices of that change and in âlighting dark places.â
Sue Kossew is Professor of English at Monash University. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and New Literatures Review and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on postcolonial and South African literature.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Susan Sheridan: Reading Feminism in Kate Grenvilleâs Fiction
Brigid Rooney: Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual
Elizabeth McMahon: Author! Author! The Two Faces of Kate Grenville
Bill Ashcroft: Madness and Power: Lilianâs Story and the Decolonized Body
Kwaku Larbi Korang: âAfrica and Australiaâ Revisited: Reading Kate Grenvilleâs Joan Makes History
Ruth Barcan: âMobility is the Keyâ: Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenvilleâs Lilianâs Story
Kate Livett: Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilianâs Story and Dreamhouse
Alice Healy: âImpossible Speechâ and the Burden of Translation: Lilianâs Story from Page to Screen
Sue Kossew: Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection
Eleanor Collins: Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenvilleâs The Secret River
Sarah Pinto: History, Fiction and The Secret River
Lynette Russell: Learning from Each Other: Language, Authority, and Authenticity in Kate Grenvilleâs The Lieutenant
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction
Susan Sheridan: Reading Feminism in Kate Grenvilleâs Fiction
Brigid Rooney: Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual
Elizabeth McMahon: Author! Author! The Two Faces of Kate Grenville
Bill Ashcroft: Madness and Power: Lilianâs Story and the Decolonized Body
Kwaku Larbi Korang: âAfrica and Australiaâ Revisited: Reading Kate Grenvilleâs Joan Makes History
Ruth Barcan: âMobility is the Keyâ: Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenvilleâs Lilianâs Story
Kate Livett: Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilianâs Story and Dreamhouse
Alice Healy: âImpossible Speechâ and the Burden of Translation: Lilianâs Story from Page to Screen
Sue Kossew: Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection
Eleanor Collins: Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenvilleâs The Secret River
Sarah Pinto: History, Fiction and The Secret River
Lynette Russell: Learning from Each Other: Language, Authority, and Authenticity in Kate Grenvilleâs The Lieutenant
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index