Fiction and Freedom: Janet Frame’s Commitment

Fiction and Freedom: Janet Frame’s Commitment

Janet Frame’s oeuvre was much acclaimed by twentieth-century New Zealand which viewed in it an emblem of its own literary and cultural identity. Frame’s singular and sometimes abstruse writing was initially quite rightly analysed through the prism of a post-colonial frame of reference. Yet, it shall...

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description Janet Frame’s oeuvre was much acclaimed by twentieth-century New Zealand which viewed in it an emblem of its own literary and cultural identity. Frame’s singular and sometimes abstruse writing was initially quite rightly analysed through the prism of a post-colonial frame of reference. Yet, it shall be argued that Frame was never truly committed to a national cause. Her fiction is truly a commitment to freedom and writing achieved through a journey in imagination and fantasy, a faraway land that I will envisage as the workshop of artistic creation. Frame’s literature of migration relies on such a movement of the mind, a movement inwards that paradoxically leads to a boundless universe of freedom.
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Fiction and Freedom: Janet Frame’s Commitment
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