Janet Frame

by Claire Bazin

Overview

This study examines the whole of Frame's output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her preceding works. It is the autobiography and its film version, An Angel at my Table, that won her international fame. Frame's life is extraordinary, not only because she was spared a lobotomy by winning a prize for her collection of short stories, but also because writing from the 'rim of the farthest circle', she provides food for thought for anyone interested in postcolonial and gender studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780746310113
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2011
Series:	Writers and Their Work
Pages:	135
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Claire Bazin is Professor of English & Commonwealth Literature at Nanterre University, France. As well as Janet Frame, she has written widely on 19th century literature generally, and published studies in France on Jane Eyre and the Bronte sisters.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Biographical Outline x

Abbreviations and References xii

1 Introduction 1

2 Autobiographical Novels 6

3 "The House of Fiction' 28

4 Short Stories and Poems: Generic Variety 65

5 An Angel at My Table 88

Notes 111

Select Bibliography 118

Index 122