Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction - The Literature of Anita Heiss

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Author: Heiss' Position in The Australian Literary Field; 3. The Page: Genre, Formula and a Turn To The Reader; 4. The Reader: Goodreads Reviews of Heiss' Chick Lit; 5. Conclusion.

Summary

Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. In this Element a focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an author is both supplemented and complemented by her roles as an academic, activist and public intellectual.

Product details

• Authors: Fiannuala Morgan, Fiannuala (Australian National University Morgan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108747691
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74769-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Publishing and Boo; Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, publishing studies; genre; chick lit; Aboriginality