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1 [Review] Inner and Outer Worlds : Gail Jones’ Fiction Zhang Chengcheng , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 59 no. 4 2023; (p. 570-571)
— Review of Inner and Outer Worlds : Gail Jones' Fiction 2022 anthology criticism

'Anthony Uhlmann’s edited collection, Inner and Outer Worlds, includes ten academic articles about contemporary Australian writer Gail Jones’s novels and their narrative, thematic, and intertextual concerns. As a writer interested in postcolonial and modernist themes, Jones is the author of short stories, novels, and also academic articles. Uhlmann acclaims Jones as “one of Australia’s most philosophical novelists” (76).' (Introduction)          

1 The Mobility of Identity : Home, Travel and Intercultural Fort\da in Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights Zhang Chengcheng , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Foreign Literature , no. 2 2021; (p. 144-150)

'The Australian writer Gail Jones excels at "transnational writing" and Sixty Lights is one prominent example. The novel explores the themes of home, travel and "intercultural fort\da" by highlighting the fluidity of identity. Lucy changes her "home" frequently only to showcase the difference of her identity, and her three journeys across the ocean construct her identity within the sameness. Hence Lucy carries out the practice of "intercultural fort\da," pursuing "the contact zone," which exemplifies "contradictory subject positions," "relationality," and "situationality." In this neo-Victorian novel, Lucy’s identity transcends space and time, dispelling the contradictions and anxieties in the construction of her cultural identity. She finally becomes a unique "global traveller" and a "woman of the future."' (Publication abstract)
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