Abstract
Australian multi-award-winning novelist Thea Astley was a great writer in promoting feminism and ecofeminism in her later years’ writing. This paper analyzes her fourth Miles Franklin award novel — Drylands from the perspective of ecofeminism. From analysis, it draws a conclusion that Astley makes a lot of efforts to raise readers’ awareness that her women characters’ liberation depends on their economic independence but it will be a hard and long way to achieve the final emancipation of women and total equality between women and men.
Highlights
Thea Astley (1925-2004), an multi-award-winning Australian novelist, a prolific writer, one of Australia’s most celebrated writers, published 16 works of fiction during her lifetime
It draws a conclusion that Astley makes a lot of efforts to raise readers’ awareness that her women characters’ liberation depends on their economic independence but it will be a hard and long way to achieve the final emancipation of women and total equality between women and men
She has won the Miles Franklin Award 4 times——in 1962 for The Well Dressed Explorer, which established her reputation as a sharp-eyed satirist of Australian social mores, in 1965 for The Slow Natives, in 1972 for The Acolyte and in 2000 for Drylands---her final novel
Summary
Thea Astley (1925-2004), an multi-award-winning Australian novelist, a prolific writer, one of Australia’s most celebrated writers, published 16 works of fiction during her lifetime. She has won the Miles Franklin Award 4 times——in 1962 for The Well Dressed Explorer, which established her reputation as a sharp-eyed satirist of Australian social mores, in 1965 for The Slow Natives, in 1972 for The Acolyte and in 2000 for Drylands---her final novel. In 2002, she was given a special award for her lifetime achievement at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards. This paper is going to explore her ecofeminist ideas in the last novel Drylands published in 1999
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