![]() ![]() In this article, the authors argue for a re-appraisal of the text as a feminist parody and as a highly intertextual postmodern work. Due to early reviews and the way it was marketed, it was labelled as 'dirty realism' or 'grunge'. The River Ophelia was a publishing sensation in Australia in the mid-90s as it describes sadistic and masochistic sex and domestic violence. It also looks forward to speculate how audiences may read the novel in 2018 and beyond, given that in October 2017 it was re-released in e-book format with a new Author's Note and Introduction (Ettler 2017a). This article, in the form of a conversation between novelist Justine Ettler and literary and cultural studies scholar Rebecca Johinke, looks back at the reception of the Australian novel The River Ophelia in 1995. ![]()
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