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(2017) Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer.
The imaginative scope of Australian lesbian writing is literally boundless. It takes in urban space as well as the outback; contemporary time to prehistory; inner voice to unlimited universe of galaxies and stars. Through close reading of the novels by Susan Hawthorne, Finola Moorehead, Dorothy Porter and others, the essay opens up new vistas of reading and critiquing lesbian writing. Myth, mathematics, physics, travel to inner and outer places is at the heart of Australian lesbian writing—whether fiction or poetry (or for that matter self-reflective prose about literature and writing). The chapter aims to assert that creating a lesbian world against the stereotypes of the mainstream view of lesbians is in itself an integral part of that experimentation.
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Hawthorne, S. (2017)., From inner space to outer space: lesbian writing in Australia, in D. Das & S. Dasgupta (eds.), Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 199-212.
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