The article investigates the contribution of Australian women writers in the field of short fiction. By going through some representative short stories by nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers, it explores and examines the narrative techniques and problematic concerns of a distinctively female literary tradition which develops and asserts itself in a patriarchal society and in a male-dominated literary context.

Marginal Genre/Marginal Gender: australian Women Writers and the Short Story

PES, Annalisa
2015-01-01

Abstract

The article investigates the contribution of Australian women writers in the field of short fiction. By going through some representative short stories by nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers, it explores and examines the narrative techniques and problematic concerns of a distinctively female literary tradition which develops and asserts itself in a patriarchal society and in a male-dominated literary context.
2015
womanhood, marginality, short fiction
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