{"product_id":"9780786498871","title":"Reappraising Jane Duncan : Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eScottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of \"angry young men\" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49114296484067,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780786498871-1.jpg?v=1788503564","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780786498871","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}