Australian fiction as archival salvage : making and unmaking the postcolonial novel /
Johnson, A. Frances.
Australian fiction as archival salvage : making and unmaking the postcolonial novel / by A. Frances Johnson. - 1 online resource (xxxiv, 319 pages) - Cross/cultures, v. 187 0924-1426 ; . - Cross/Cultures 187. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303928. .
Originally presented as the author's Ph. D. thesis at the University of Melbourne.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-301) and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Historical Novel / Genre Memory: Australian Historical Novels in Context / Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Novel of History / Elision and Engagement: Writing Indigeneity in Post-Bicentennial Historical Novels / Postmodern Rats in the Ranks: The Novelist and the Historian as Raiders of the Colonial Archive / Speaking in Tongues: The Novelist as Historiographic Fool / Writing South of South: Extinction Discourse in Novelizations of Tasmanian Colonial Pasts / Conclusion: Beyond the Dry Dock / Appendix 1: Postcolonial/Post-Colonial Debates in Context / Appendix 2: Lessons in ‘The Lost Garden’: A First-Contact Tasmanian Historical Novel in Progress / Works Cited / Index / A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson.
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Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines key developments in the field of the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present. In parallel with this analysis, A. Frances Johnson undertakes a unique study of in-kind creativity, reflecting on how her own nascent historical fiction has been critically and imaginatively shaped and inspired by seminal experiments in the genre – by writers as diverse as Kate Grenville, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Peter Carey, Richard Flanagan, and Rohan Wilson. Mapping the postcolonial novel against the impact of postcolonial cultural theory and Australian writers’ intermittent embrace of literary postmodernism, this survey is also read against the post-millenial ‘history’ and ‘culture wars’ which saw politicizations of national debates around history and fierce contestation over the ways stories of Australian pasts have been written.
9789004311671
10.1163/9789004311671 DOI
1900-2099
Australian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Australian fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Historical fiction, Australian--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Australia.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Australian fiction.
Historical fiction, Australian.
Literature and history.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Australia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9612.6.H5 / J64 2016
823.009/994
Australian fiction as archival salvage : making and unmaking the postcolonial novel / by A. Frances Johnson. - 1 online resource (xxxiv, 319 pages) - Cross/cultures, v. 187 0924-1426 ; . - Cross/Cultures 187. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303928. .
Originally presented as the author's Ph. D. thesis at the University of Melbourne.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-301) and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Historical Novel / Genre Memory: Australian Historical Novels in Context / Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Novel of History / Elision and Engagement: Writing Indigeneity in Post-Bicentennial Historical Novels / Postmodern Rats in the Ranks: The Novelist and the Historian as Raiders of the Colonial Archive / Speaking in Tongues: The Novelist as Historiographic Fool / Writing South of South: Extinction Discourse in Novelizations of Tasmanian Colonial Pasts / Conclusion: Beyond the Dry Dock / Appendix 1: Postcolonial/Post-Colonial Debates in Context / Appendix 2: Lessons in ‘The Lost Garden’: A First-Contact Tasmanian Historical Novel in Progress / Works Cited / Index / A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson -- A. Frances Johnson.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines key developments in the field of the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present. In parallel with this analysis, A. Frances Johnson undertakes a unique study of in-kind creativity, reflecting on how her own nascent historical fiction has been critically and imaginatively shaped and inspired by seminal experiments in the genre – by writers as diverse as Kate Grenville, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Peter Carey, Richard Flanagan, and Rohan Wilson. Mapping the postcolonial novel against the impact of postcolonial cultural theory and Australian writers’ intermittent embrace of literary postmodernism, this survey is also read against the post-millenial ‘history’ and ‘culture wars’ which saw politicizations of national debates around history and fierce contestation over the ways stories of Australian pasts have been written.
9789004311671
10.1163/9789004311671 DOI
1900-2099
Australian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Australian fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Historical fiction, Australian--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Australia.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Australian fiction.
Historical fiction, Australian.
Literature and history.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Australia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9612.6.H5 / J64 2016
823.009/994