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(2017) Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer.
Transnation and feminine fluidity
new horizon in the fiction of Chandani Lokugé
Sharon Rundle
pp. 323-336
Sri Lankan-Australian women writers have left their stamp on Australian fiction, from the ground-breaking first novel, A Change of Skies by Yasmine Gooneratne, in 1992, to the narratives of 2014 Miles Franklin Award recipient Michelle de Kretser. Among these novels that address the migrant's cultural dilemma and accommodation, the novels by Chandani Lokugé demand attention. Lokugé has published three novels. This chapter examines the aspects of water and music flowing through Lokugé's fiction to transformative new horizons and how these validate the concept of the transnation. Diversity of voices in literature is important in the contemporary public sphere in Australia and the chapter contributes towards addressing an elision in Australian discourse.
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Rundle, S. (2017)., Transnation and feminine fluidity: new horizon in the fiction of Chandani Lokugé, in D. Das & S. Dasgupta (eds.), Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 323-336.
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