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Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable women in France, 1880–1945 by Rosemary Lancaster

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February 2009, no. 308

Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable women in France, 1880–1945 by Rosemary Lancaster

UWAP, $29.95 pb, 234 pp

Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable women in France, 1880–1945 by Rosemary Lancaster

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February 2009, no. 308

At the time that I was asked to review Rosemary Lancaster’s Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880–1945, I was reading American writer Helen Barolini’s Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy (2006). The books are similar: five of Lancaster’s six chapters are devoted to individual women whose lives and experience, like those in Barolini, cover the period from the late nineteenth century to the mid twentieth. Both books are very much of the transnational moment, with its preoccupations with movement, connections and experience across borders, and premises that the identities of individuals and nations are formed abroad in contact and collision with others, as well as at home. The number of studies of overseas lives continues to grow but is surpassed by transcultural life writing, including Australian, in what has been described as ‘villa/ge’ books, travel writing that is about the destination not the voyaging, about living abroad rather than touring, about subject in situ rather than ‘situ’.

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