Australian fiction as archival salvage : making and unmaking the postcolonial novel / Frances A. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Frances A., author.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; Volume 187.

Cross/Cultures, 0924-1426 ; Volume 187

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Australian fiction.

Australian fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, Australian--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, Australian.

Literature and history--Australia.

Literature and history.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill-Rodopi, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / A. Frances Johnson

Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Historical Novel / A. Frances Johnson

Genre Memory: Australian Historical Novels in Context / A. Frances Johnson

Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Novel of History / A. Frances Johnson

Elision and Engagement: Writing Indigeneity in Post-Bicentennial Historical Novels / A. Frances Johnson

Postmodern Rats in the Ranks: The Novelist and the Historian as Raiders of the Colonial Archive / A. Frances Johnson

Speaking in Tongues: The Novelist as Historiographic Fool / A. Frances Johnson

Writing South of South: Extinction Discourse in Novelizations of Tasmanian Colonial Pasts / A. Frances Johnson

Conclusion: Beyond the Dry Dock / A. Frances Johnson

Appendix 1: Postcolonial/Post-Colonial Debates in Context / A. Frances Johnson

Appendix 2: Lessons in ‘The Lost Garden’: A First-Contact Tasmanian Historical Novel in Progress / A. Frances Johnson

Works Cited / A. Frances Johnson

Index / A. Frances Johnson.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's Ph. D. thesis at the University of Melbourne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-31167-X

OCLC:

933212407

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004311671 DOI