After Long Absence single work   short story  
Alternative title: The Mango Tree
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 After Long Absence
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Alternative title: The Mango Tree
Notes:
Titled 'The Mango Tree' in The Yale Review and Personal Best 2.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Latitudes : New Writing from the North Susan Johnson (editor), Mary Roberts (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986 Z31179 1986 anthology short story prose biography St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986 pg. 1-11
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    y separately published work icon The Yale Review Summer 1986 Z1612489 1986 periodical issue 1986 pg. 601-609
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    y separately published work icon Dislocations Janette Turner Hospital , Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1986 Z1037396 1986 selected work short story

    'Reaching across continents, these allusive, richly textured stories are unified by moments of dislocation in which certainties are eclipsed by unfamiliar terrain. A last, transforming embrace between Indian lovers heralds their separate journeys into arranged marriages; an elderly woman discovers a kinship with her neighbour through their mutual isolation; a young woman's beauty is ravaged by fire; a schoolteacher, fettered by responsibility, learns from her brash students during a Queensland summer heady with the smell of sugar cane; a decaying amaryllis plant mirrors the pain of the artist who obsessively sketches it, and a woman devastated by her friend's death, is shocked by her own secret exultation in living.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (Virago ed.)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987     pg. 201-210
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    y separately published work icon Personal Best 2 : Stories and Statements by Australian Writers Garry Disher (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z232459 1991 anthology short story criticism extract biography poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 pg. 1-13
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories Mary Lord (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 Z307411 1991 anthology short story extract humour satire crime historical fiction (taught in 1 units) Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 pg. 303-311
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    y separately published work icon Collected Stories 1970-1995 Janette Turner Hospital , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z201489 1995 selected work short story St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 pg. 172-180
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Century of Australian Stories Carmel Bird (editor), Ringwood : Viking , 2000 Z290212 2000 anthology short story Ringwood : Viking , 2000 pg. 388-395
Alternative title: Nach langer Abwesenheit
Language: German
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Works about this Work

Glimpses of Paradise : Hope in Short Stories of Migartion by M. G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner Hospital Helga Ramsey-Kurz , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Projections of Paradise : Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature 2011; (p. 237-257) 'The migrant's presence in one place is always an absence from another. To capture this ambivalence, narratives of migration must oscillate between different locations. This paper is interested in the ways in which other-worlds either left or never reached by the migrant are discursively fenced off, as it were, against the remaining part of the tale of travelling to sustain not only a sense of movement beyond the suggested moments of arrival but also the hope by which this movement has been prompted. I will focus on three short stories describing three different stages in the drama of migration: "Leaving" by M. G. Vassanji, "Mammita's Garden Cove" by Cyril Dabydeen, and "After Long Absence" by Janette Turner Hospital.' Helga Ramsey-Kurz.
Respectable Author Turns to Crime Giles Hugo , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 24 August 1991; (p. 20)
The Inheritance of Difference Sue Lovell (interviewer), 1989 single work interview
— Appears in: Imago , March vol. 1 no. 1 1989; (p. 8-9) The Queensland Writer , Summer (1989-1990) vol. 1 no. 5 1989; (p. 5-6)
Glimpses of Paradise : Hope in Short Stories of Migartion by M. G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner Hospital Helga Ramsey-Kurz , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Projections of Paradise : Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature 2011; (p. 237-257) 'The migrant's presence in one place is always an absence from another. To capture this ambivalence, narratives of migration must oscillate between different locations. This paper is interested in the ways in which other-worlds either left or never reached by the migrant are discursively fenced off, as it were, against the remaining part of the tale of travelling to sustain not only a sense of movement beyond the suggested moments of arrival but also the hope by which this movement has been prompted. I will focus on three short stories describing three different stages in the drama of migration: "Leaving" by M. G. Vassanji, "Mammita's Garden Cove" by Cyril Dabydeen, and "After Long Absence" by Janette Turner Hospital.' Helga Ramsey-Kurz.
The Inheritance of Difference Sue Lovell (interviewer), 1989 single work interview
— Appears in: Imago , March vol. 1 no. 1 1989; (p. 8-9) The Queensland Writer , Summer (1989-1990) vol. 1 no. 5 1989; (p. 5-6)
Respectable Author Turns to Crime Giles Hugo , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 24 August 1991; (p. 20)
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  • Urban,
  • Brisbane, Queensland,
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