Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark's Fiction
Fiona Morrison, "Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark's Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1743329660 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1743329660 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark’s fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark’s writing.
This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark’s fiction as a whole, but also reflects on the ways in which her fiction speaks to our present moment, in the context of a globally fraught, post-pandemic, Anthropocene era. Above all, the revisiting of Dark’s fiction is mandated by a desire to recognise the ways in which it anticipates vital debates in Australian literary and national culture today, about settler colonialism and its legacies, and with regard to the histories, condition and status of Australia’s First Nations people.
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