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This essay reviews and discusses seven Australian novels published in 2000 and 2001 which all focus on 'travelling heroines'. Trying to explore what these novels tell us about the current state of Australian fiction, Webby sees a trend to avoid contemporary settings and topics and thus a confrontation with current political and social issues such as discrimination and racism. She observes a move from the nineteenth to the twentieth century as 'the favoured domain for serious Australian historical fiction', and a trend to return to essentially nineteenth-century themes and structures.
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The Travelling Heroine in Recent Australian Fiction
Subjects:
- The Day We Had Hitler Home : A Novel 2000 single work novel
- Dirt Music 2001 single work novel
- Gilgamesh : A Novel 2001 single work novel
- Love Song 2001 single work novel
- Bettany's Book 2000 single work novel
- Conditions of Faith 2000 single work novel
- Dark Palace 2000 single work novel
- 2000-2001
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