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'This elegant and disturbing novel follows a young girl's coming-of-age in the Adelaide Hills just after the turn of the century. Thea Hodge, aged twelve, knows that young ladies should be pretty, demure and nice, but what is she to make of the mysterious and sensual Rina, the exotic sisters Love and Mercy, and her own sister Meg, whose plans for marriage and conformity go horribly wrong?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Affiliation Notes
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Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains references to attitudes to Chinese people (pp 40-42).
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- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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'The Sex Thing Is Strange' : The Queerness of Barbara Hanrahan’s Fiction
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing 2017; (p. 227-241)'This chapter explores Barbara Hanrahan’s notion that sexuality “can manifest itself in all sorts of ways” disrupts the naturalised binary logic that governs cultural intelligibility about what constitutes “real” sex and what remains unimaginable and unspeakable. It also highlights a preoccupation in her writing with non-normative sexual desires and identities that is akin to the critical concerns of queer epistemologies. The chapter takes Hanrahan’s contestation of normative thinking about sexuality as a starting point to critically examine the queerness of her “fantastic novels”. By reading Hanrahan’s fiction queerly we are offered a valuable critique that challenges the normalising power of heterosexuality and its claims to be the only intelligible and “natural” way to organise desire.'
Source: Abstract.
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American Dreams and the University of Queensland Press
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 323-338)'The University of Queensland Press was transformed from a merely scholarly into a creative independent Australian publisher partly through the agency of the American publisher Frank Thompson. In the explosive days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with Australians' complex fascination with United States, Thompson embodied the democratic challenge to the old British dominated regime on campus and in publishing circles. This paper will explore pivotal books published by UQP notably Thomas Shapcott's Contemporary American and Australian Poetry in 1976; UQP's development of the American market with the distribution of UQP literary fiction and the establishment of an American office; and co-publishing with American publishers and editing Australian books for American readers in a different hemisphere. Thompson's own assessment of his successes and failures will be contextualised in terms of political developments and those issues long associated with Australian literature - environmental representation and expatriatism.' (Author's abstract)
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Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 98-99)
— Review of Where the Queens All Strayed 1978 single work novel -
Barbara Hanrahan
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988; (p. 66-86) -
Daisy Miller Down Under : The Old World/New World Paradigm in Barbara Hanrahan
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 8 no. 3 1986; (p. 10-27)
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Childhood and the Spirit of Place
1978
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 6 no. 3 1978; (p. 119-121)
— Review of Knock Ten : A Novel of Mining Life 1976 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed 1978 single work novel -
Exploring the Territory : Some Recent Australian Novels
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 38 no. 2 1979; (p. 225-233) Oceanic Literature , no. 5 1983; (p. 332-345)
— Review of An Imaginary Life : A Novel 1978 single work novel ; The Year of Living Dangerously 1978 single work novel ; Bitter Bread 1978 single work novel ; Idlers in the Land 1978 single work novel ; Tirra Lirra by the River 1978 single work novel ; The Bitter Lotus 1978 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed 1978 single work novel ; Silent Reach 1978 single work novel -
Untitled
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 January 1979; (p. 26)
— Review of Transit of Cassidy 1978 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed 1978 single work novel -
Modes of Being
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 23 no. 5 1979; (p. 69-70)
— Review of Deirdre Kincaid : A Novel 1978 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed 1978 single work novel -
Untitled
1978
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 December 1978; (p. 17)
— Review of Where the Queens All Strayed 1978 single work novel -
American Dreams and the University of Queensland Press
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 323-338)'The University of Queensland Press was transformed from a merely scholarly into a creative independent Australian publisher partly through the agency of the American publisher Frank Thompson. In the explosive days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with Australians' complex fascination with United States, Thompson embodied the democratic challenge to the old British dominated regime on campus and in publishing circles. This paper will explore pivotal books published by UQP notably Thomas Shapcott's Contemporary American and Australian Poetry in 1976; UQP's development of the American market with the distribution of UQP literary fiction and the establishment of an American office; and co-publishing with American publishers and editing Australian books for American readers in a different hemisphere. Thompson's own assessment of his successes and failures will be contextualised in terms of political developments and those issues long associated with Australian literature - environmental representation and expatriatism.' (Author's abstract)
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Barbara Hanrahan
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988; (p. 66-86) -
Tea Rose and The Confetti-Dot Goddess: Images of the Woman Artist in Barbara Hanrahan's Novels
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Who Is She? 1983; (p. 204-219) -
An Interview with Barbara Hanrahan
Jennifer Palmer
(interviewer),
1982
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21-28 December vol. 103 no. 5345 1982; (p. 203-206) -
Barbara Hanrahan's Novels
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 1 1983; (p. 47-57)
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