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'Andy, an English lawyer looking for a miracle cure. Pandora, an Australian eco-scientist, looking for the perfect women's project. Meenakshi, author and co-ordinator of the project, returned to India to work for rural development. And Jade, an Australian working in New York, comes to buy neem skin care products to sell exclusively at a New York store. The past passions of each of the four brings to their meeting in India are revealed in a web-like plot, with the neem tree acting as a kind of crucible for each as the novel draws to a startling climax.' (Publication summary)
Sun Square MoonInez Baranay,
2002extract thesis (Sun Square Moon : An Exegesis with Accompanying Novel : Neem Dreams) — Appears in:
LiNQ,Octobervol.
29no.
22002;(p. 74-82)'These pieces come from my current work, a PhD dissertation about the writing of the novel Neem Dreams. ... This meta-work, called Sun Square Moon employs a range of voices and styles to explore issues in writing this novel.' -- Inez Baranay, p.74
Interrogating Whiteness : A Precarious Cross-Cultural/Racial Creative Writing PhD JourneyFilipa Bellette,
2013single work criticism — Appears in:
TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses,Octobervol.
17no.
22013;'This article explores my coming-to-consciousness and dismantling of whiteness – of white privilege and power – in my self and in my writing during my Creative Writing PhD candidature. Throughout the course of my PhD, I embarked on a cross-cultural/racial project, which involved myself, as a white writer, grappling with the ethical uncertainties of writing about African Australians and of placing the (white) self into the racial problem. Initially, my enquiry began by exploring ways in which I might convey an accurate and dynamic picture of African Australians in my creative work; however, as I progressed in my candidature, and as I tried to find an ethical balance for representing the intercultural/racial encounters between my black African and white Australian characters, questions about the “other” turned to an interrogation of the “self”. Had I been reflecting, albeit unconsciously, my ingrained whiteness in my PhD novella? And how might I fracture whiteness in my writing (and in my self) in an attempt to establish a writing position that interrupts my unconscious acts of narrativising whiteness? ' (Author's abstract)
Interrogating Whiteness : A Precarious Cross-Cultural/Racial Creative Writing PhD JourneyFilipa Bellette,
2013single work criticism — Appears in:
TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses,Octobervol.
17no.
22013;'This article explores my coming-to-consciousness and dismantling of whiteness – of white privilege and power – in my self and in my writing during my Creative Writing PhD candidature. Throughout the course of my PhD, I embarked on a cross-cultural/racial project, which involved myself, as a white writer, grappling with the ethical uncertainties of writing about African Australians and of placing the (white) self into the racial problem. Initially, my enquiry began by exploring ways in which I might convey an accurate and dynamic picture of African Australians in my creative work; however, as I progressed in my candidature, and as I tried to find an ethical balance for representing the intercultural/racial encounters between my black African and white Australian characters, questions about the “other” turned to an interrogation of the “self”. Had I been reflecting, albeit unconsciously, my ingrained whiteness in my PhD novella? And how might I fracture whiteness in my writing (and in my self) in an attempt to establish a writing position that interrupts my unconscious acts of narrativising whiteness? ' (Author's abstract)
