Reappraising Jane Duncan : sexuality, race and colonialism in the my friends novels / Rita Elizabeth...
Reappraising Jane Duncan : sexuality, race and colonialism in the my friends novels / Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe.
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Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2017]
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G 2017/2310
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English
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vi, 188 pages ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Preface -- A note on language. Jane Duncan's works -- Part I: Jane Duncan: The writer and her work. Who was Jane Duncan? ; "Love is the Law : Sexuality and convention ; "You have to work": Women's labor ; Archaean schist in a volcanic world: Geography from a Reachfar perspective ; "Not like us": Ra...
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Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2017]
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North Carolina
Date Published
[2017]
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"Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examin...
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Reappraising Jane Duncan : sexuality, race and colonialism in the my friends novels / Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index.
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G 2017/2310
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74VKVagNG3EZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVagNG3EZ
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9780786498871
0786498870
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823.914
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991024103217002626