Janet Frame
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An accessible close re-reading of Frame's novels and short stories from an autobiographical perspective. This study examines the whole of Janet Frame's output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her preceding works. It is the autobiography and its film version, An Angel at My Table (1990, directed by Jane Campion), that won her international fame. Frame's life is extraordinary, not only because she was spared a lobotomy by winning a prize for her collection of short stories, but also because writing from the 'rim of the farthest circle, ' she provides food for thought for anyone interested in postcolonial and gender studies.
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Product details
- Hardback | 123 pages
- 144 x 218 x 16mm | 322.05g
- 30 Dec 2011
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd
- Tavistock, United Kingdom
- English
- 0746310560
- 9780746310564
About Claire Bazin
Claire Bazin is Professor of English & Commonwealth Literature at Nanterre University, France. As well as Janet Frame, she has written widely on 19th century literature generally, and published studies in France on Jane Eyre and the Bronte sisters.
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