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Reappraising Jane Duncan
- Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends Novels
Engelsk Paperback

Reappraising Jane Duncan

- Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends Novels
Engelsk Paperback

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Scottish novelist Jane Duncan''s semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women''s education and work in the 20th century, a woman''s view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider''s perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies.

This book explores Duncan''s body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
196
ISBN-13:
9780786498871
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786498870
Udg. Dato:
14 mar 2017
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
150mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
14 mar 2017
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