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'A professor's wife, Juliet, already feeling too far from the excitements of city life in her small Canadian college-town, obligingly journeys with husband David (and their two children) even further: to Kerala in southern India, for David's research sabbatical year.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Clifford, Geoffrey, and Cressida.
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Epigraph: I am forever blessed!/For I am his own breath, within his flute!/And if that breath is used up, in one song,/I shall not mourn./The joy of all the worlds is in his flute,/and I his breath!/Let my song be good or evil,/let it be played with joy or sorrow,/I will sound it in the morning,/and in the evening it will sound,/and I will play it, softly muffled, in the night./I will play it in the spring,/I will play it in the fall,/and when his breath is used up, in his song,/I shall not mourn./My song will be the loveliest of songs.
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Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Untitled
single work
review
— Review of The Ivory Swing 1982 single work novel ; The Last Magician 1992 single work novel -
Reading Asia : Musings of a Peripatetic Writer
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 4 no. 2 2012; Notes for a paper delivered at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Teaching English (ATTE) on the theme ‘Finding a Place for Falstaff’, Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 2011 -
Reconfiguring 'Asian Australian' Writing : Australia, India and Inez Baranay
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 3 2010; (p. 11-29) -
An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital
Pradeep Trikha
(interviewer),
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: Lemuria , vol. 3 no. 2010; (p. 50-64) -
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Rainforest Narratives : The Work of Janette Turner Hospital
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2009
Z1611963
2009
single work
criticism
'Rainforests evoke vivid imagery; the profusion of intertwined trees and undergrowth both invites and confounds exploration. Acclaimed writer Janette Turner Hospital conjures up a rainforest for readers by weaving threads of connection and meaning into a labyrinth of characters and plot lines. From The Ivory Swing to Orpheus Lost, Hospital's award-winning novels and short stories have challenged and intrigued readers for over twenty-five years. Hospital's books tackle complex themes of dislocation, identity, ethics and the nature of reality, wrapping around a reader like rainforest creepers, remaining attached long after the last page is turned.
In this groundbreaking work of literary criticism, David Callahan signposts and analyses the major themes scattered throughout Janette Turner Hospital's writing. Rainforest Narratives is the perfect companion to her fiction for readers and scholars alike.' -- Publisher description.
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From Canada
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , June no. 14 1985; (p. 15)
— Review of The Ivory Swing 1982 single work novel -
On Reflection, Money Well Spent
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 1992; (p. 106-108)
— Review of The Ivory Swing 1982 single work novel -
Trapped between Two Poles
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Whig-Standard Magazine , 2 October 1982; (p. 19)
— Review of The Ivory Swing 1982 single work novel -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 119)
— Review of The Ivory Swing 1982 single work novel -
A Debut that Will Swing New Readers
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 July 1991; (p. 39)
— Review of The Ivory Swing 1982 single work novel -
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Janette Turner Hospital : Gender Issues, Landscape, Memory and Dislocation in The Ivory Swing, The Tiger in the Tiger Pit, Borderline, Charades and The Last Magician
1996
Z1038382
1996
single work
thesis
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First Voice : Janette Turner Hospital
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 3 June 2006; (p. 27) 'Janette Turner Hospital looks back on the writing of her first published book.' -
y
Rainforest Narratives : The Work of Janette Turner Hospital
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2009
Z1611963
2009
single work
criticism
'Rainforests evoke vivid imagery; the profusion of intertwined trees and undergrowth both invites and confounds exploration. Acclaimed writer Janette Turner Hospital conjures up a rainforest for readers by weaving threads of connection and meaning into a labyrinth of characters and plot lines. From The Ivory Swing to Orpheus Lost, Hospital's award-winning novels and short stories have challenged and intrigued readers for over twenty-five years. Hospital's books tackle complex themes of dislocation, identity, ethics and the nature of reality, wrapping around a reader like rainforest creepers, remaining attached long after the last page is turned.
In this groundbreaking work of literary criticism, David Callahan signposts and analyses the major themes scattered throughout Janette Turner Hospital's writing. Rainforest Narratives is the perfect companion to her fiction for readers and scholars alike.' -- Publisher description.
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Marian Engel 'Bear', Joy Kogawa 'Obasan', Janette Turner Hospital 'The Ivory Swing'
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Private and Fictional Words : Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s 1987; (p. 106-138) -
The Charting of a 'Private National Identity' in Janette Turner Hospital's 'Charades' and 'The Ivory Swing'
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Nationalism vs. Internationalism : (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English 1996; (p. 341-350)
Awards
- 1982 winner Seal Award (Canada)
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cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
