Crossing the Boundaries: The Versatility of Women in the Novels of Janette Turner Hospital.
Over the last thirty years, Janette Turner Hospital has produced an oeuvre of work that is predominantly dark and unsettling. Many societies are presented as rigidly hierarchical and compartmentalized. Status and even identity are most often determined by the accidents of birth and circumstance. Per...
| Publicado en: | Hecate Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 116 - 131 |
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