Contested selves and postmodern hybridity: Authorial renunciation and gender revisionism in Patrick White's Memoirs of Many in One.
This article attempted to reclaim Patrick White's final novel, Memoirs of Many in One , from the margins of White scholarship. The novel was a significant omission from the first major study of White's oeuvre to appear in over 25 years, entitled Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essay...
| Publicado en: | Literator Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11 |
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