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From: Herizons
Date: 20041001
Author:Ridington, Jillian-reviewer; Visman, Janni
by Janni Visman
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, 2004
Review by Jillian Ridington
Yellow can be light, the colour of lemonade and sunshine. But yellow is also the colour of jealousy, of poison gas, of fear and cowardice, "a smouldering, unclean yellow"--the colour that is a seeping, dominant presence in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist classic, The Yellow Wallpaper. It's also the tint that pervades Yellow, British writer Janni Visman's second novel.
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Gilman presented a frightening portrait of a woman confined against her will; Visman portrays a woman confined by her own ...
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