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Article: Eve plays her Wilde card and makes the straight flush. (author Eve Langley's transgressive works reminiscent of Oscar Wilde)
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- Hecate
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- May 1, 1994
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In her two published novels, the Prior Prize-winning The Pea Pickers (1942), and its sequel White Topee (1954), Eve Langley engaged in subversive gender games and resignifications, including cross-dressing and picaresque adventures that could still be accommodated within the mainstream of relatively conventional narratives. However the manuscript of Langley's third, and potentially finest novel, Wild Australia, when submitted in 1953, utterly disconcerted the Angus and Robertson Readers, unaccustomed as they were to public speaking/writing that radically disrupted normative textual and biological boundaries by outrageously transgressive and parodic multiple shifts of gender, ...