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In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.
Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland.
Introduction Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral ResponsibilityJessica GildersleeveSection A: Literature in the ColonyChapter 1 Expressing a New Civilisation: Authorship, Publishing and Reading in the 1890sRoger OsborneChapter 2 The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyMichelle J SmithChapter 3 The Metropolis or the Bush?Megan BrownChapter 4 The Weeping KangarooKen Gelder and Rachael WeaverSection B: Early Twentieth-Century AustraliaChapter 5 The Reflective Moment: Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century AustraliaSusan CarsonChapter 6 Among the Autumn Authors: Books and Writers in Interwar Australian MagazinesSarah Galletly and Victoria KuttainenChapter 7 ‘Caterpillars of the Commonwealth’: Dangerous Books in AustraliaFrancesca Rendle-ShortChapter 8 ‘Mad, Muddy, Mess of Eels’: Modern Theatre and Patrick White’s Sensuous DramaturgyJanet McDonaldSection C: Contemporary AustraliaChapter 9 ‘Are You With Me?’ Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970sJulian Meyrick and Jenny FewsterChapter 10 Around 1988: Australian Literature, History and the BicentenaryEduardo Marks de MarquesChapter 11 Politics and Contemporary Australian FictionNicholas BirnsChapter 12 Towards a New Direction in Contemporary Criticism: Cognitive Australian Literary StudiesJean-François VernaySection D: Australian Literary Studies in the Public SphereChapter 13 Literary Criticism in AustraliaEmmett StinsonChapter 14 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows: Women Writers and Book Reviewing in AustraliaMelinda Harvey and Julieanne LamondChapter 15 Literary Prizes and the Public SphereAlexandra DaneChapter 16 Literary Media Entertainment: Author Stardom and the Public (Media) SphereDella RobinsonChapter 17 Australian Literature in the UniversityLeigh DaleChapter 18 An Australian Ethics of Reading?Maggie NolanSection E: Australian Literature and the WorldChapter 19 News from Australia: Global Modernism Studies and the Case of Australian ModernismMelinda J CooperChapter 20 Hijabi-Bodies and Sartorial StrategiesDevaleena DasChapter 21 Australian Literature in Asia: China and IndiaDavid Carter and Paul SharradChapter 22 Australian Writing about AsiaDavid WalkerSection F: Key Themes in Australian WritingChapter 23 Turning the Inside Out: Interiority and Australian FictionPeter D MathewsChapter 24 Gendering Australian LiteratureAlison BartlettChapter 25 ‘Silence is My Habitat’: Judith Wright, Writing, and DeafnessJessica WhiteChapter 26 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian LiteratureDaniel HouriganChapter 27 Into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner and the Drug NarrativeNycole ProwseChapter 28 ‘Something New at Hand’: Australian Literature and the SacredLyn McCreddenChapter 29 Animal Representative Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent Australian FictionClare Archer-LeanChapter 30 Landscape (After Mabo)Tony Hughes-d’AethChapter 31 ‘The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary’: A Brief History of Australian Suburban LiteratureNathanael O’ReillyChapter 32 Australian Literature and Everyday LifeAndrew McCannChapter 33 Emblematic Spaces: Postcoloniality and the RegionStephanie GreenSection G: Genre in Australian Literary StudiesChapter 34 Twenty-First-Century Australian PoetrySarah Holland-Batt and Ella JefferyChapter 35 Life Writing and Conflict: Love WinsKylie Cardell and Kate DouglasChapter 36 Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel WritingKate CantrellChapter 37 Australia’s Long Relationship with RomanceTanya DalziellChapter 38 Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and PracticesNike SulwayChapter 39 Shadows in Paradise: Australian GothicGina WiskerChapter 40 Australian Television and Literary CriticismSusan LeverChapter 41 Screen Adaptation and Australian LiteratureKarina Aveyard
Jessica Gildersleeve, Patricia Juliana Smith, University of Southern Queensland) Gildersleeve, Jessica (Associate Professor of English Literature, Hofstra University) Smith, Patricia Juliana (Associate Professor of English
Jessica Gildersleeve, Patricia Juliana Smith, University of Southern Queensland) Gildersleeve, Jessica (Associate Professor of English Literature, Hofstra University) Smith, Patricia Juliana (Associate Professor of English