The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
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The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.
- Chapters survey a wide breadth of Australian fiction, with emphasis on twentieth-century and recent writers
- Provides a vision of Australian literature that is global and up-to-date
- Includes a useful chronology and a list of further readings as a key reference source
Reviews & endorsements
‘Longer than the usual releases in the series, this companion to the Australian novel volume is unexpectedly revisionist. … Recommended.’ T. Ware, Choice
Product details
March 2023Hardback
9781316514481
300 pages
236 × 157 × 28 mm
0.7kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
