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Dedication: To the memory of Kenneth Stirling and Patrick Pak-Poy, with gratitude.
Epigraph: 'I'd rather mingle vision with the ant than, so removed, command the lion and the leopard in my sight.' Fay Zwicky 'Giraffe', from 'Ark Voices'.
Love and Vertigo : The Blue Mountains as Veranda in Australian Women's WritingElizabeth Hicks,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
Antipodes,Decembervol.
25no.
22011;(p. 171-175)The Blue Mountains have often been used as a backdrop in Australian literature. Elizabeth Hicks looks at several of these texts by Australian women which were written during the fifteen years between 1987 and 2002, a period which loosley corresponds to theat of third-wave feminism.
The Bush and the Garden in the Writing of Drusilla Modjeska and Kate LlewellynElizabeth Hicks,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia,vol.
2no.
12011;(p. 70-81)'Through the gardens depicted in their Blue Mountains texts of the 1980s and
1990s, Australian writers Drusilla Modjeska and Kate Llewellyn forge a feminist
aesthetic in which the binaries of nature/culture, male/female and bush/city co-exist.
These texts depict Australia as a nation that no longer looks predominantly to Britain
but is a hybrid and transcultural entity which embraces its rich migrant experience.' Source: Elizabeth Hicks,
The Bush and the Garden in the Writing of Drusilla Modjeska and Kate LlewellynElizabeth Hicks,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia,vol.
2no.
12011;(p. 70-81)'Through the gardens depicted in their Blue Mountains texts of the 1980s and
1990s, Australian writers Drusilla Modjeska and Kate Llewellyn forge a feminist
aesthetic in which the binaries of nature/culture, male/female and bush/city co-exist.
These texts depict Australia as a nation that no longer looks predominantly to Britain
but is a hybrid and transcultural entity which embraces its rich migrant experience.' Source: Elizabeth Hicks,
Love and Vertigo : The Blue Mountains as Veranda in Australian Women's WritingElizabeth Hicks,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
Antipodes,Decembervol.
25no.
22011;(p. 171-175)The Blue Mountains have often been used as a backdrop in Australian literature. Elizabeth Hicks looks at several of these texts by Australian women which were written during the fifteen years between 1987 and 2002, a period which loosley corresponds to theat of third-wave feminism.