How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia: Stories and Essays

With a keen critical eye and sharp insight, Sylvia Lawson moves across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia, and Australia, listening to distinctive local voices from the cultural margins and reclaiming concerns the metropolitan centers ignore. All imperialisms are in Lawson's sights -- of culture, national politics, and gender -- as they were for Beauvoir, the subject and inspiration for the book's title piece.

Sylvia Lawson has published widely on film, media, and cultural politics; her last book, The Archibald Paradox, won numerous awards. She is an honorary research fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney.