6/11/2023 0 Comments The Delinquents by Criena RohanThis article argues that Rohan's book represents a Queensland iteration of a ‘regional modernism’.' (Introduction) Labour in Vain: the Forgotten Novels of Australia’s Radical Women Danae Bosler, By the fiery smoldering of its passion, though, their love sustains them and they emerge at the end, buffeted but united and resilient. The Delinquents is very much a novel of rebellion and subversion, as its teenage protagonists, Brownie Hansen and Lola Lovell, pursue their love over the opposition of both sets of parents the police, the bourgeois consensus and everybody who is not them. A short novel written by a writer who did not have a long career, and published between more commonly scrutinised periods of Australian fiction, The Delinquents is still, however, liminal. 196-206 ) Abstract 'Criena Rohan's The Delinquents (1962) has always had a cult appeal - in 1989 it was made into a movie, starring Kylie Minogue as Lola and an unknown American as Brownie - and was recently reissued as a Text Classic. Sharon Faylene and the Woman from the Welfare : Heterosexual Fulfilment and Modernist Form in Criena Rohan's The Delinquents Nicholas Birns,Ģ 2016 (p.
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