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Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982) (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982). Life Writing, 483 - 491. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2020.1769304

This article explores Janet Frame's first autobiography To the Is-Land, reading Frame's relentless cataloguing of objects as indicative of her wider, post-imperial, life writing project. Frame insists that her ancestors (white Scottish settlers who a... Read More about Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982).

An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994). Wasafiri, 10 - 16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2020.1760468

This article rereads Penelope Lively's first memoir Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) as not only witnessing the end of British colonial rule, but also revealing how life in England – and more widely Britain – elides and conceals the impact of Empire. Livel... Read More about An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994).

'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative (2020)
Book Chapter
(2020). 'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative. In Documenting Trauma in Comics Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage (199-219). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37998-8_12

This chapter discusses Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?, a sequence of 784 paintings created between 1940 and 1942 by a young German-Jewish artist. Focusing upon three key paintings within the cycle, and in particular their representations of op... Read More about 'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative.