The Cambridge companion to the Australian novel /

"Covering writers from Michelle de Kretser to Gerald Murnane, Alexis Wright to Helen Garner, The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a contemporary view of Australian fiction, including unprecedented coverage of First Nations authors. This book is an excellent reference source...

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Group Author: Birns, Nicholas. (Editor); Klee, Louis (Editor)
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2023.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Summary: "Covering writers from Michelle de Kretser to Gerald Murnane, Alexis Wright to Helen Garner, The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a contemporary view of Australian fiction, including unprecedented coverage of First Nations authors. This book is an excellent reference source on a subject of growing interest to researchers"--
Carrier Form: xxxvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781316514481
131651448X
9781009087582
1009087584
Index Number: PR9612
CLC: I611.074
Call Number: I611.074/C178
Contents: preoccupations of the Australian novel /
Presencing : writing in the decolonial space /
Literary visitors and the Australian novel /
Settler colonial fictions : beyond nationalism and universalism /
White writing, indigenous Australia, and the chronotopes of the settler novel /
Mabo, mob, and the novel /
Publishing the Australian novel /
'Rich and strange' : Christina Stead and the transnational novel /
Sexuality in Patrick White's fiction /
Constellational form in Gerald Murnane /
Helen Garner's house of fiction /
Alexis Wright's novel activism /
Kim Scott and the doctoral novel /
The contemporary western Sydney novel /
Beyond the cosmopolitan : small dangerous fragments /
Craft and truth : the Australian verse novel /
Queering mateship : David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas /
Australian fiction in the anthropocene /
What is the (Australian) refugee novel? /