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Wendy Glassby Wendy Glassby i(A28871 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon Between Wendy Glassby , Australia : Lily Ellen Publishing , 2021 22780153 2021 single work novel

'1975. The new nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is moving away from a colonial history and as this infant state redefines itself, non-indigenous residents such as the culturally-diverse Seeto family must choose between citizenships in either Australia or Papua New Guinea. For Maria and Henry Seeto, this is heart-wrenching. Members of their family have lived in the regional capital of Rabaul since the late 1800s, when their grandmother left an Indonesian island to settle there, and in the 1930s when their father came from China. Maria’s husband sees migrating to Australia the safer choice for his family, while Henry stays in PNG.

'2010. A phone call from PNG breaks Maria’s 66 year-long estrangement with Henry and encourages her to return to her homeland. After only weeks with Henry, her health fails. As she waits to die, Maria contemplates her losses and the cost of her mistakes.'

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1 The Writerly Art of Celebrating Difference : Reading Ambiguity in Ross Gibson’s The Summer Exercises Wendy Glassby , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017; 'The subject of Ross Gibson’s novel The Summer Exercises (2008) is a past society of which the author allows his readers only glimpses. How might Gibson’s work provide inspiration or direction for the fiction writer concerned with representing the other? In his work, Gibson utilises disparate real and fictional elements to reveal traces of a society no longer accessible: the city of Sydney, Australia, circa 1946. An analysis of the text, as it is understood by a creative writer in search of models for her own project, contends that the manner in which Gibson interweaves the miscellany of his narrative produces a ‘crowded style’, a form that eschews a dominant voice and invites a range of interpretive possibilities. The reader is thus encouraged to defer drawing any definitive conclusion from the text. Gibson’s experimental form and its ability to create a sense of ambiguity in its reading thus provides a stellar example of how one writer’s choices have mobilised imaginative and sensitive possibilities for representing the other.' (Publication abstract)
1 Picnic at Forster Wendy Glassby , 1998 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 43 no. 2 1998; (p. 55-60)
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