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Article: Fold in the map: figuring modernity in Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking and Elizabeth Knox's Dreamhunter.(Critical essay)
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- Australian Literary Studies
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- October 1, 2007
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IN the late 1980s Elizabeth Webby and I edited two anthologies of fiction by women writers from both sides of the Tasman: Happy Endings (1987) and Goodbye to Romance (1989). Elizabeth Webby has been one of very few academics in Australia or New Zealand to work on both literatures, despite their many shared interests. This essay, which explores the representation of modernity in the work of two contemporary trans-Tasman women writers, Gall Jones's Dreams of Speaking and Elizabeth Knox's Dreamhunter, is a tribute to her work.
Many of Knox's novels are predicated on imaginary or dream worlds and have traditional storytelling motifs. Her novel Black Oxen (2001) is an ...