Jamie S. Scott Jamie S. Scott i(A59797 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 [Review] Yarn Spinners: A Story of Friendship, Politics and a Shared Commitment to a Distinctive Australian Literature, Woven through the Letters of Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin and Their Congenials Jamie S. Scott , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 55 no. 1 2019; (p. 134-135)

— Review of Yarn Spinners : A Story in Letters : Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin Dymphna Cusack , Miles Franklin , Florence James , 2001 anthology correspondence biography

'There are many ways to read as rich and detailed a book as Marilla North’s Yarn SpinnersA Story of Friendship, Politics and a Shared Commitment to a Distinctive Australian Literature, Woven through the Letters of Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin and their Congenials, an updated and substantial reworking of Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters – Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin (2001). North herself suggests one approach when, in an online interview, she describes how she developed the earlier collection of selected correspondence among three mid-20th-century Australian literatae into a more complex “hybrid text” or “biographical narrative” involving a good deal of “detective work” to fill in chronological gaps among the letters. As a result, you may start the book on the opening page, as you would a novel, and follow the three “politically active” eponymous characters as, on either side of World War II, they negotiate their way through several decades of ups and downs with one another, publishers, family members, assorted friends and rival writers, government bureaucrats and a host of other figures in their determination to play a part in creating and defending “an authentic and truly Australian literature” (17).' (Introduction)

1 1 y separately published work icon Mapping the Sacred : Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures Jamie S. Scott (editor), Paul Simpson-Housley (editor), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2001 Z940719 2001 multi chapter work criticism
1 'Custodians of a British Prison Camp : Re-Presenting the Christian Missionary in Post-Colonial Aboriginal Fiction Jamie S. Scott , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: 'And the Birds Began to Sing' : Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures 1996; (p. 77-87)
1 y separately published work icon 'And the Birds Began to Sing' : Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures Jamie S. Scott (editor), Atlanta : Rodopi , 1996 Z896158 1996 anthology criticism
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