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

"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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Other Authors: Birns, Nicholas (Editor), Klee, Louis (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of 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.