Overview

New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) during her lifetime published 11 novels, three collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. The details of her life--her tragic early years, her confinement in a psychiatric hospital and her miraculous reprieve--overshadow her work and she remains largely neglected by scholars. These essays focus on Frame's autobiography, short stories and novels. Contributors from around the world explore a range of topics, including her mother's Christadelphian faith, her relationships with two 20th century icons (William Theophilus Brown and John Money), and a view of Frame in the context of trauma studies. Two of the essays were presented at the 2014 Northeast Modern Language Association convention.

Full Product Details

Author:   Josephine A. McQuail
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781476669731

ISBN 10:   1476669732
Pages:   207
Publication Date:   14 February 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword (Patricia Moran) Introduction (Josephine A. McQuail) Part One. Autobiography Janet Frame’s New Zealand Autobiography: A Postcolonial delete deleteOdyssey (Suzette A. Henke) A Soldier’s Daughter: The Autobiographies and Autobiographical Fiction of Janet Frame and Doris Lessing (Cyrena Mazlin) Deriding the I: Tales of Darkness and Laughter in An Angel at My Table (Aurelia Mouzet) Part Two. Short Stories Strategies of Avoidance in The Lagoon and Other Stories (Claire Bazin) Lagoonization: The Aesthetics of Insularity and Porosity in The Lagoon and Other Stories (Jennifer Boum Make) Part Three. Novels Faces in the Water: “The Feast of Fools” or the Rewriting of the Carnivalesque as Serving Thanatos (Marion Clavier) Men Without Women: Daughter Buffalo and Female Victimization (Josephine A. McQuail) Distanciation or the Poetry of Loneliness in Towards Another Summer (Manon-Lili Morand) Illumination and the Silver Palm: The Pattern of Three and the Quest for Identity in The Edge of the Alphabet (Jennifer Rideout) Janet Frame’s New Gothic: Language in A State of Siege (Josephine A. McQuail) About the Contributors Janet Frame: A Bibliography Index

Reviews

Author Information

Josephine A. McQuail, a professor of English at Tennessee Technological University, is active in the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Tennessee Education Association (TEA). She lives in Cookeville, Tennessee.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions