May Gibbs's Suburban Space

Authors

  • Laurie Duggan The University of Melbourne

Keywords:

May Gibbs, children's literature, the city, modernism

Abstract

The paper argues that May Gibbs's Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie engages not just with the myths that appeal to children but also with a living culture--an urban culture of a particular time and place--and with a landscape which is able to incorporate modernity unproblematically.

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Published

2013-02-12

Issue

1997: Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

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How to Cite

May Gibbs’s Suburban Space. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 48-51. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9505