Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends Novels
by
Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Scottish novelist Jane Duncan’s semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of “angry young men” monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers...