Review of Critical Spaces: Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame By Lorna M. Irvine

Authors

Robert L. Ross, University of Texas at Austin

Date of this Version

1996

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 16:3 (Summer 1996). Copyright © 1996 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

In Critical Spaces, Lorna M. Irvine presents a complex body of material in clear prose and organizes that material in an accessible manner. Irvine not only examines the critical reaction to the fiction of Canadian Margaret Laurence and New Zealander Janet Frame but also reflects on the ways the writers' work and the response to it mirror the growing nationalism in the two countries.