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Joanne McPherson Joanne McPherson i(A34240 works by)
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1 Alan Marshall (1902-1984) Joanne McPherson , 2002 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers, 1915-1950 2002; (p. 204-211)
1 Taming the Wild Child : Colonialism and Postcolonialism in Gary Crew's Angel's Gate Joanne McPherson , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Compr(om)ising Post/colonialism(s) : Challenging Narratives and Practices 2001; (p. 251-260)
1 The Abject and the Oedipal in Sonya Hartnett's 'Sleeping Dogs' Joanne McPherson , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 9 no. 3 1999; (p. 15-22) McPherson explores how Sonya Hartnett's Sleeping Dogs reflects the binary positionality of Julia Kristeva's exposition of abjection and the Oedipal stage of a child's psycho-sexual development, through each of the text's characters, all of which embody the abject in some way (15). She begins with a consideration of Kristeva's theory of abjection, which 'maps the physical and psychical develoment of the subject from an abject borderline state' to its insertion within the symbolic order as a 'speaking subject' (15). She explains how the 'ability to take up a symbolic position as a social and speaking subject is predicated upon the subjects rejection of the borderline, the unpredicatable, the ambiguous and the unclean' (15). While the Oedipul drama in Sleeping Dogs concerns the son's love for the daughter/sister rather than the mother/lover, McPherson argues that fundamentally, the narrative reinforces the status quo of patriarchal dominance, particularly as 'the powerless and abject maternal stands in constant, inadequate opposition to the paternal rule governing the symbolic order' (21).
1 Gender, Realism and Power in 'The House That Was Eureka' Joanne McPherson , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 7 no. 1 1997; (p. 31-38) McPherson gives an anlaysis of gendered subjectivity in Nadia Wheatley's The House That Was Eureka and considers whether or not the novel challenges dominant patriarchal discourses by looking at its representational functions and the 'effects of fantasy and realism' on its textual constructions (31). The text is concerned with 'the inequalities of class, wealth and power' and attempts to address issues of gender stereotyping and the construction of gendered behaviour through the depiction of events during the Great Drepression. McPherson posits that while Wheatley challenges many gender sterotypes using realist and fantasy narrative techniques, ultimately the novel condones masculine intervention, domination and violence (38).
1 Electr(a)ic Realism : Part 2 : Idealised Reality Joanne McPherson , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Making It Real : Proceedings of the Fourth Children's Literature Conference 1997; (p. 27-30)
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