- Title
- Southern steel, Acier austral de l'Australienne Dymphna Cusack: le combat d'une rebelle
- Creator
- Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure
- Relation
- France and Australia Face to Face = Australie/France Regards Croises p. 95-108
- Relation
- http://www.lesindessavantes.com/db/record.php?id=171
- Publisher
- Les Indes Savantes
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Her essay on 'Southern Steel' (1953), a novel by politically committed Australian writer Dymphna Cusack, is set in Newcastle. The writers's descriptions of life in this town are based on her own experience when she taught there from 1942 to 1943. Vuaille-Barcan presents a brief overview of Australian literature between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1940s in order to situate this novel within its national, historical and literary context. She demonstrates that Cusack's particular brand of 'social realism' was ahead of its time, for example in the choice of an urban setting when her contemporaries were still nostalgically opting for the mythological bush setting. She highlights Cusack's contribution to the creation of a genuinely Australian literary canon and seeks to understand why this writer's work is frequently underrated today.
- Subject
- Southern Steel (1953); Dymphna Cusack; Australian literature; social realism
- Identifier
- uon:5770
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44463
- Identifier
- ISBN:9782846542067
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