AustLit

'Among many contemporary Australian female writers, Helen Ghana's name may not be the most prominent, but it is very memorable because of her work and because of her life. For 30 years since the publication of the first novel, Addiction to Drug Abuse in 1977, Ghana's reputation as a feminist writer has been established, consolidated, and promoted in the alternation of readers and reviewers' acceptance and rejection, understanding, and questioning, becoming a Famous feminist icon in Australian feminist culture and literature. She is the first female writer to win the "Australian National Book Award" in the history of contemporary Australian literature. She is the first novelist to successfully practice "feminine writing" and establish a turning point for Australian female writing. She is also the first in the history of Australian feminism. Feminists questioning the fruits of feminism and prompting feminist reflections—the authors of "a special moment of significance". Her name has become almost synonymous with contemporary Australian feminist writing. As an alternative female writer who started late, is not prolific, controversial, is marginal, or even a bit apostate, Helen Ghana has always attracted the attention of readers and critics after the emergence of Australian literary circles. The decline is a phenomenon worth studying: a female writer who uses women as the main writing object, female life experience as the main writing content, and personal narrative as the main writing form. If measured by patriarchal literary standards, she focuses on The content of family life and the form of autobiography determined her narrow vision and doomed her works to be of little artistic value, but Helen Ghana overturned this male power with her popularity and lasting influence in the public The aesthetic standards prove the power of female writing. Unlike other female writers of her time, Helen Ghana never hides her feminist identity, and frankly admits that without feminist inspiration, she would probably not be a writer.'

Source: CNKI.