Silent Snarls in the Suburbs. "Father Lands" by Emily Ballou. [review]
Silent Snarls in the Suburbs. "Father Lands" by Emily Ballou. [review]
| dc.contributor.author | Falconer, Delia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-10-04T04:58:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-10-04T04:58:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | My first thought on reading "Father Lands" was of Lasse Hallström's film "My Life as a Dog" (1985) in the way that both novel and film enter so completely and unerringly into the world of childhood with all its quirks, illogicality and fears. But there are other traditions at work in this novel, set in Milwaukee in the mid-1970s, and which recounts Cherry Laurel's experience of the ‘Historical Experiment’ of integrating black and white primary school students. Ballou, an American who has made Australia her home for the last decade, may also have had in mind the use of a child’s-eye perspective that runs through American literature from "Huckleberry Finn" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" to Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend", in which matters of great historical significance, particularly the racial history of the USA, are brought into relief by the stark honesty of an ingenuous child-narrator. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victoria | en |
| dc.format.extent | 304741 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Falconer, Delia 2002. Silent Snarls in the Suburbs. Review of "Father Lands" by Emily Ballou. 'Australian Book Review', No 247, December, 58. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0155-2864 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1309 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Australian Book Review | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | No 247 | en |
| dc.subject | Australian | en |
| dc.subject | Book Reviews | en |
| dc.subject | Publishing | en |
| dc.subject.other | Australian Standard Research Classification > 420200 Literature Studies > 420202 Australian and New Zealand | en |
| dc.title | Silent Snarls in the Suburbs. "Father Lands" by Emily Ballou. [review] | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |