Writing Woman, Writing Place Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: place, space and gender	1
Pt. 1	Contemporary Australian fiction	17
	Introduction: post-bicentennial perspectives	19
1	The violence of representation: rewriting 'The Drover's Wife'	24
2	'Gone bush': refiguring women and the bush: Kate Grenville's The Idea of Perfection and Eva Sallis' Hiam	43
3	Another country: the 'terrible darkness' of country towns: Thea Astley's Drylands and Gillian Mears' Fineflour and The Mint Lawn	56
4	Learning to belong: nation and reconciliation Jo Dutton's On the Edge of Red and Heather Grace's Heart of Light	73
Pt. 2	Contemporary South African fiction	95
	Introduction: new subjectivities	97
5	'A white woman's words': the politics of representation and commitment	103
6	Rewriting the farm novel: Anne Landsman's The Devil's Chimney	120
7	Revisioning history: Elleke Boehmer's Bloodlines and Anne Harries' Manly Pursuits	135
8	A state of violence: the politics of truth and reconciliation: Gillian Slovo's Red Dust and Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun	150
Pt. 3	Beyond the national	163
9	Exile and belonging: Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and Eva Sallis' The City of Sealions	165
	Notes	178
	Bibliography	183
	Index	197