The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

ISBN-13: 9781316514481 / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

Louis (University of Cambridge) Klee

Opis

This book provides a clear, lively, and accessible guide to the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.

Spis treści

Introduction: preoccupations of the Australian novel Louis Klee and Nicholas Birns; Part I. Contexts: 1. Presencing: writing in the decolonial space Jeanine Leane; 2. Literary visitors and the Australian novel Brendan Casey; 3. Settler colonial fictions: beyond nationalism and universalism Paul Giles; 4. White writing, indigenous Australia, and the chronotopes of the settler novel Michael Griffiths; 5. Mabo, Mob, and the novel Evelyn Araluen; 6. Publishing the Australian novel Emmett Stinson; Part II. Authorships: 7. 'Rich and Strange': Christina stead and the transnational novel Fiona Morrison; 8. Sexuality in Patrick White's fiction Chen Hong; 9. Constellational form in Gerald Murnane Louis Klee; 10. Helen Garner's house of fiction Brigid Rooney; 11. Alexis Wright's novel activism Lynda Ng; 12. Kim Scott and the doctoral novel Joseph Steinberg; Part III. Futures: 13. The contemporary western Sydney novel Lachlan Brown; 14. First nations transnationalism Declan Fry; 15. Beyond the cosmopolitan: small dangerous fragments Michelle Cahill; 16. Craft and truth: the Australian verse novel Nicholas Birns; 17. Queering Mateship: David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas Lesley Hawkes and Mark Piccini; 18. Australian fiction in the anthropocene Tony Hughes D'aeth; 19. What is the (Australian) refugee novel? Keyvan Allahyari; Further reading compiled by Joseph Steinberg; Index.