The novel Riverweed, which forms the substantial part of this thesis, is an experiment with strategies in writing across cultures and across time, from Australia to Malaysia, from 1997 to 1956. The method of writing the novel was,in the most part, informed by viewing the television dramas and films and reading the novels of the late Dennis Potter. Riverweed is a novel in five parts. The essay, with tender contempt : history, fiction auto/biography : writing across cultures, discusses many of the issues related to the research for the novel. The author had hoped to write a novel that crossed political and cultural borders in a seamless exploration of nostalgic love for a place - George Town, Penang. She believes she has written an Australian novel which includes in its imaginative sphere a migration from the loneliness of the mythologised paddock forward to nostalgia, understanding nostalgia as part of the anxious energy characterising the middle-class neuroses of civil society in both Australia and Malaysia. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/189577 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Van Langenberg, Carolyn, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, School of Communication and Media |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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