The Cambridge companion to the Australian novel / edited by Nicholas Birns, New York University, Louis Klee, University of Cambridge.

Other author Birns, Nicholas.
Other author Klee, Louis.
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Descriptionxxxvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction : preoccupations of the Australian novel / Louis Klee and Nicholas Birns -- Presencing : writing in the decolonial space / Jeanine Leane -- Literary visitors and the Australian novel / Brendan Casey -- Settler colonial fictions : beyond nationalism and universalism / Paul Giles -- White writing, indigenous Australia, and the chronotopes of the settler novel / Michael Griffiths -- Mabo, mob, and the novel / Evelyn Araluen -- Publishing the Australian novel / Emmett Stinson -- 'Rich and strange' : Christina Stead and the transnational novel / Fiona Morrison -- Sexuality in Patrick White's fiction / Chen Hong -- Constellational form in Gerald Murnane / Louis Klee -- Helen Garner's house of fiction / Brigid Rooney -- Alexis Wright's novel activism / Lynda Ng -- Kim Scott and the doctoral novel / Joseph Steinberg -- The contemporary western Sydney novel / Lachlan Brown -- First Nations transnationalism / Declan Fry -- Beyond the cosmopolitan : small dangerous fragments / Michelle Cahill -- Craft and truth : the Australian verse novel / Nicholas Birns -- Queering mateship : David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas / Lesley Hawkes and Mark Piccini -- Australian fiction in the anthropocene / Tony Hughes D'Aeth -- What is the (Australian) refugee novel? / Keyvan Allahyari.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2022031329
ISBN9781316514481 (hardback)
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