. . . . "Juvenile works"@en . . . . . "Matilda's last dance : death, gender, sexuality and Australian adolescent literature"@en . . . . . . . "This thesis examines representations of death in a selection of contemporary texts for Australian adolescent audiences. It demonstrates that, although death is a complex subject, a characteristically Australian 'way of death' is identifiable in these fictions and it is invariably associated with issues of sexuality, gender and power."@en . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . .