Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 428937
Femininity vs. Australianness: The Case of Ada Cambridge
Femininity vs. Australianness: The Case of Ada Cambridge // Dis/Solutions: The Future of the Past in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
Palma de Mallorca, Španjolska, 2009. (predavanje, nije recenziran, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Femininity vs. Australianness: The Case of Ada Cambridge
Autori
Klepač, Tihana
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Izvornik
Dis/Solutions: The Future of the Past in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
/ - , 2009
Skup
Dis/Solutions: The Future of the Past in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
Mjesto i datum
Palma de Mallorca, Španjolska, 22.09.2009. - 25.09.2009
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran
Ključne riječi
Australia; metanarrative; little narratives; femininity; Ada Cambridge
Sažetak
In the nineteenth century nation-building projects novel played an important role as the simultaneous consummation of fiction served to create an imaginary community (Anderson). Hence novel was seized by elite men in the nationalist projects. In the process novel was identified with realism, which was considered new, serious art and consequently, great literature. Suffering “ cultural apartheid” (Summers) as a writer of urban romance novels in the predominantly male, realist, nationalist literary tradition of Australia, the work of Ada Cambrigde has for a long time been silenced and devalued, discounted as popular and commercial cultural capital (Sheridan), only documentary value attributed to it. However, a careful analysis of A Marked Man reveals Cambridge’ s unease with the genre, and her attempt at its subversion on both, the level of form and the level of content, in an effort to render a new experience in a form she traditionally had available as a woman writer. The analysis will reveal the novel to be a valuable cultural capital, as it will not only give evidence of its literary merit, but also demonstrate how it formulates an alternative to the nationalist metanarrative – a “ little narrative” (Lyotard) which voices the concerns of urban nineteenth-century Australian women, as well as locate the “ nodal points” (Lyotard) in which it intersects the Australian nationalist metanarrative.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija
