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1. Beyond Matricide: Maternal Subjectivity, Patriarchy, and Chaos Theory in Fiona Kidman’s Ricochet... 2020

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   D’Cruz, Doreen

   Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature, Vol. 39, Issue 2, pp. 261 - 284.

   This article analyses New Zealand author Fiona Kidman's novel, Ricochet Baby (1996) in order to demonstrate its subversive narrative recovery of maternal subjectivity and agency through the metafic... Read more

   This article analyses New Zealand author Fiona Kidman's novel, Ricochet Baby (1996) in order to demonstrate its subversive narrative recovery of maternal subjectivity and agency through the metafictional process that installs the mother as author. The novel thus disestablishes the symbolic matricide that is congruent with the negation of maternity and which is the foundational fantasy that sustains the linear, deterministic structure of patriarchy. Kidman relies on a double strategy that at once exhumes the maternal voice, anchoring it within its own set of signifiers, and traces the gradual weakening of the internal cogency of patriarchy. For the latter project, Kidman draws upon the resources of chaos theory. This article thus situates its analysis in the contexts derived from feminist theory and, to a lesser extent, chaos theory. Read less

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2. Asian Encounters: Hybridity, Female Inheritance, and Intertextuality in Fiona Kidman's Songs from... 2021

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   D'Cruz, Doreen

   Papers On Language & Literature, Vol. 57, Issue 4, pp. 329 - 359.

   D'Cruz discusses Fiona Kidman's Songs from the Violet Café. Songs from the Violet Café turned its lens upon other New Zealand ethnicities, in particular upon Chinese New Zealanders, and upon the hy... Read more

   D'Cruz discusses Fiona Kidman's Songs from the Violet Café. Songs from the Violet Café turned its lens upon other New Zealand ethnicities, in particular upon Chinese New Zealanders, and upon the hybrid identities that resulted from interracial mixing. In the process, Kidman refined her feminist resistance not only to patriarchy but also to white supremacy, besides invoking through a subtle intertextuality New Zealand feminism's historic links to China. The fascination with China and the occasional Chinese character fill the backdrop to Songs from the Violet Café, yet the actual Asian setting the novel features is Cambodia after the fall of the Pol Pot regime. Through the translocation of one of her major characters, Jessie Sandle, to Cambodia as a war correspondent in the 1980s, Kidman finds the enabling factors for figuring a conceptual space within which hybrid identities can transcend the alternatives of assimilation or exile. Notwithstanding her consequent implied allusion to New Zealand's own incapacity to give recognition to those who do not fit into polarized stereotypes, Kidman acknowledges, however subtly, a discernible thread of Sinophilia within New Zealand culture. Read less

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3. Women, Time and Place in Fiona Kidman's The Book of Secrets 2007

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   Cruz, Doreen D'

   Journal Of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 42, Issue 3, pp. 63 - 81.

   This essay explores the strategies whereby a female fictional historiography intercepts patriarchy's ownership of “sign and time” and alters the configurations of official history. Fiona Kidman's n... Read more

   This essay explores the strategies whereby a female fictional historiography intercepts patriarchy's ownership of “sign and time” and alters the configurations of official history. Fiona Kidman's narrative covering three generations of women linked to the diasporic community initially headed by Norman McLeod is deemed to formulate its challenge to received linear history through a dialogic process consistent with Bakhtin's elaboration of this notion. This essay further argues that through its juxtaposition of the emergent counter-history alongside lyric time associated with maternal processes, Kidman's novel rejects the binary opposition between nature and culture, lyric and narrative, which patriarchy has used in order to deny women a place in the cultural continuum. It also contends that the female contestation of history is enabled through places, best exemplified by the house at Waipu, where women can constitute themselves as mothers as well as daughters to mothers. Thus the place of female exclusion and incarceration doubles as a sanctuary and archival resource from where competing feminist constructions are mounted. Read less

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