Die Haltestelle der Madame Vromant von Jonna Struwe - gebundenes Buch

Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an author is both supplemented and complemented by her roles as an academic, activist and public intellectual. Heiss has discussed genre as a means of targeting audiences that may be less engaged with Indigenous affairs, and positions her novels as educative but not didactic. Her readership is constituted by committed readers of romance and chick lit as well as politically engaged readers that are attracted to Heiss'' dual authorial persona; and, both groups bring radically distinct expectations to bear on these texts. Through analysis of online reviews and surveys conducted with users of the book reviewing website Goodreads, I complicate the understanding of genre as a cogent interpretative frame, and deploy this discussion to explore the social significance of Heiss'' literature.

Jonna Struwe verbindet schon lange eine besondere Liebe zu Frankreich. Nach ihrem bilingualen deutsch-französischen Abitur studierte sie nicht nur Politikwissenschaft und Publizistik, sondern auch Romanistik. Sie lebte bereits in Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence und in Paris. Kein Wunder, dass die Geschichte von Madame Vromant sofort ihre Frankreich-Liebe aufs Neue entfachte. Sie kann sich allerdings nicht erinnern, je in Frankreich Bus gefahren zu sein.