y separately published work icon Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing anthology   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Amsterdam,
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Netherlands,
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Western Europe, Europe,: New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,:Rodopi , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Ticket to Nowhere : Coming-of-Age in Two Twentieth-Century Indigenous Australian Memoirs, Gay Breyley , single work criticism
The author looks at the autobiographical writings of two Aboriginal women with specific focus on their adolescent memories. Particular attention is given to the way each narrator increases her level of personal agency in adolescence, making decisions that condition their respective futures.
 (p. 187-206)
Transitions : Rites of Passage as Border Crossings in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction, Rachel Slater , single work criticism
The novels examined in this criticism focus on Asian-Australian women in contemporary Australia. Examples of the difficulties and identity-threatening tranisitions the characters undergo in their efforts to move across the borders of two cultures are given particular attention. Both authors share a dynamic engagement with notions of female subjectivity which provide insight into ways of belonging in Australia and the world.
 (p. 207-223)
Menstrual Metamorphosis and the 'Foreign Country of Femaleness', Anna Gething , single work criticism

This criticism examines the writings of Kate Grenville and Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid both of whom articulate the doubleness of female subjectivity. Particular emphasis is given to the dichotomy between aesthetic femininity and abject femaleness. This discussion includes summaries of Julia Kristeva's twentieth century abjection theory and Edmund's Burke's eighteenth century theory of aesthetics.

 (p. 267-281)
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