Victoria Flanagan
Victoria Flanagan is a senior lecturer in children’s literature at Macquarie University. She is the author of Into the Closet: Cross-dressing and the Gendered Body in Children’s Literature and Film (2008).
All essays by Victoria Flanagan
Not for children? Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett has never been one to shy away from controversial subject matter. Her latest novel, Golden Boys, is the story of what unfolds when a new family moves into a suburban Australian neighbourhood one summer. Set during the mid-1970s or early 1980s, it explores a time when children roamed the streets freely, the only constraint on their movement a mandate that they return home for the evening meal. Although this recent past might be romanticised by some as a more innocent time, Hartnett examines its darker side.
Oct. 2014 •
Fiction