Exiles At Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Between the wars, a generation of Australian women took up their pens and forged a literary tradition that has been largely overlooked by mainstream cultural history — Exiles at Home restores their voices with authority and grace. Drusilla Modjeska chronicles the lives and works of Australian women writers active between 1925 and 1945, situating them within the social, political, and domestic constraints that shaped both their writing and their silences. Drawing on biography, literary criticism, and social history, Modjeska presents a vivid portrait of women who were simultaneously insiders and outsiders — present in their culture yet exiled from its centres of power and recognition. This landmark work of Australian literary scholarship argues that these writers were not peripheral figures but central contributors to a national cultural identity still in formation. Modjeska's prose is precise yet deeply empathetic, weaving individual lives into a broader tapestry of feminist and historical inquiry. For anyone who believes they know the story of Australian literature, Exiles at Home offers a compelling and necessary corrective.
Author: Drusilla Modjeska
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Between the wars, a generation of Australian women took up their pens and forged a literary tradition that has been largely overlooked by mainstream cultural history — Exiles at Home restores their voices with authority and grace. Drusilla Modjeska chronicles the lives and works of Australian women writers active between 1925 and 1945, situating them within the social, political, and domestic constraints that shaped both their writing and their silences. Drawing on biography, literary criticism, and social history, Modjeska presents a vivid portrait of women who were simultaneously insiders and outsiders — present in their culture yet exiled from its centres of power and recognition. This landmark work of Australian literary scholarship argues that these writers were not peripheral figures but central contributors to a national cultural identity still in formation. Modjeska's prose is precise yet deeply empathetic, weaving individual lives into a broader tapestry of feminist and historical inquiry. For anyone who believes they know the story of Australian literature, Exiles at Home offers a compelling and necessary corrective.