ABSTRACT
In Moving About the Place (2021), Evelyn Conlon imagines her female characters living and setting up relationships in countries in which she has had a longstanding interest: Australia, Japan, Italy, Indonesia, Monaco and South Africa. This study discusses her transcultural sensibility and her ability to provide the reader with a sharp and flexible apprehension of agency and its limits. It also assesses the complex and dynamic relations that her female characters establish with other people and space. Finally, this discussion unveils how the transcultural lens allows for a shift of perspective for boundary crossing, highlights entanglements and connectivities as much as practices of contestation and resistance, and illuminates Conlon’s innovative interpretations of the significance of nations, limits and connections.
