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Adapted for the 1998 television mini-series Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life directed by Moira Moss. Screenplay by Meahgan Smith
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Also dyslexic edition
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Editor's Introduction: Always Facing the Issues - Preoccupations in Australian Children's Literature
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 27 no. 2 2003; (p. v-xvii) - y A Wizard Lit Master to Maureen McCarthy's Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life Ballarat : Wizard Books , 2000 Z1890795 2000 single work criticism Secondary school teachers' resource.
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Untitled
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 37-38)
— Review of Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life 1995 single work novel -
Perpetrators and Princesses: Transgression and Subject Formation in 'Killing Aurora' and 'Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life'
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 10 no. 3 2000; (p. 5-11) In this article, de Villiers looks at textual representations of transgression within the context of contemporary adolescent fiction in two Australian novels, Killing Aurora and Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life. De Villiers points out that in the majority of adolescent fiction, 'transgression is still primarily used to reinscribe charatcers within the dominant ideological framework' of Westernized cultures, however, literary acts of transgression can be used to undermine and subvert dominant ideologies and their 'asscociated discursive practices' (5). The ensuing comparative reading concludes that Killing Aurora 'makes a far more radical use of transgression which questions the dominant social and cultural paradigms of identity formation' as opposed to Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude..., which is 'conservative and traditional' in its underlying enforcement of the 'dominant patriarchal framework which aligns women with the sterotypically 'feminine' and 'natural' role of caring and nurturing for children' (6,10). -
Constructions of Female Selves in Adolescent Fiction: Makeovers as Metonym
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 9 no. 1 1999; (p. 5-13)In this article, Stephens examines the makeover as a 'specialized form of feminine discourse' (5) by looking at how it is represented in adolescent fictions. Stephens' comparative approach discusses several novels by Australian authors of children's literature in conjunction with discourses from popular culture and explores the links between teenage magazines and adolescent fiction. He uses Judith Butler's concept of gender performativity to highlight the dialogic relationship between identity as 'performance' and identity as 'expression' (5) pointing out that the former is often equated with nihilism, while (neo)humanist conceptualisations of the subject usually privilege 'expression' in narratives of adolescent identity formation: 'By realizing the physical or exterior body...the makeover metonymically expresses a character's unfolding inferiority...But when the fictions represent a character whose subjectivity is 'merely' performative...that character is apt to be radically alienated and possibly tragic' (5). For Stephens, the implicit function of makeover narratives is either transformative or cautionary based upon the notion that the 'transformed body' acts semiotically as a 'metonym of growth' (6). Stephens conludes that makeover narratives in teenage adolescent fiction for girls generally adhere to the dominant humanist paradigm of subjectivity in which 'self identity is defined by how an individual is valued by others' (5) and as the 'expression of a substantial self' which acts as a stable and innate ground for choice and agency' (12)
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Untitled
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 10 no. 5 1995; (p. 40)
— Review of Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life 1995 single work novel -
Untitled
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 37-38)
— Review of Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life 1995 single work novel -
Untitled
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 29)
— Review of Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life 1995 single work novel -
Untitled
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 75 no. 1061 1995; (p. 54)
— Review of River Child 1995 single work novel ; Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life 1995 single work novel -
Ruth Park Reviews Maureen McCarthy's `Queen Kat...'
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 176 1995; (p. 58)
— Review of Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life 1995 single work novel -
Know the Author : Maureen McCarthy
1996
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column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 11 no. 1 1996; (p. 18-20) -
Young Adult Fiction Prize
1996
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 11 no. 5 1996; (p. 39) -
Editor's Introduction: Always Facing the Issues - Preoccupations in Australian Children's Literature
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 27 no. 2 2003; (p. v-xvii) - y A Wizard Lit Master to Maureen McCarthy's Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life Ballarat : Wizard Books , 2000 Z1890795 2000 single work criticism Secondary school teachers' resource.
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Including Them Out : Working-Class Characters in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 40-45)
Awards
- 1997 winner West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Avis Page Award
- 1996 commended Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature — Older Readers
- 1996 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Sheaffer Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction
- 1996 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — The Ethel Turner Prize for Children's Writing
- Melbourne, Victoria,