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Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels (2022)
Journal Article
Lustig, T. J. (2023). Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels. Children's Literature in Education, 54(4), 483-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-022-09475-y

Jacqueline Rose’s influential notion of the “impossibility” of children’s literature rests on the claim that such works “frame” the child and place the adult “first”. Although Ransome’s writings undoubtedly contain instances of such divisions and hie... Read More about Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels.

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).