After the Celebration
Australian Fiction 1989-2007
$66.95
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2009
Summary
Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction- where we have been and what we have become.After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia’s bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts- cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational.From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, from Australian grunge to ‘rural apocalypse fiction’, from the Asian diasporic novel to the action blockbuster, Gelder and Salzman show how Australian novelists such as Frank Moorhouse, Elizabeth Jolley, Peter Carey, Kim Scott, Steven Carroll, Kate Grenville, Tim Winton, Alexis Wright and many others have used their work to chart our position in the world.The literary controversies over history, identity, feminism and gatekeeping are read against the politics of the day. Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction- where we have been and what we have become.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522855975 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522855970 |
| Author: | Ken Gelder, Paul Salzman |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 401g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 156mm x 232mm |
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“Absorbing reading for writers and followers of Australian fiction.”
“Absorbing reading for writers and followers of Australian fiction.” –Courier Mail
Ken Gelder
Ken Gelder is Professor of Literary Studies at The University of Melbourne. His books include Reading the Vampire (1994), Popular Fiction- The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004) and Subcultures- Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007). He is also co-author, with Jane M Jacobs, of Uncanny Australia- Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998). Rachael Weaver is Research Fellow in Literary Studies at The University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Criminal of the Century (2006).
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