The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Jessica Gildersleeve

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000281705
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

• Abbott, Tony 108, 114, 158
• Abdel-Fattah, Randa 194–7, 199–201
  • Does My Head Look Big in This? 194–7, 201
  • ‘The Double-Bind of Writing as an Australian Muslim Woman’ 201
  • ‘Rev. Nine Parts of Desire’ 200
• Aboriginal 27–8, 31, 36–7, 42, 65, 93, 99–106, 113, 158, 177, 184, 186–90, 199, 204, 207–9, 211, 230–1, 237, 244, 245, 249, 278, 295–301, 330, 338, 340, 355, 375–6, 380, 384–91, 397, 405–7
• Aboriginal Gothic 390
• Academy Award 404
• Adams, Carol J. 284, 289
  • The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory 284
• Adams, Francis 39–40, 223
  • ‘A Glimpse of China’ 223
  • ‘The Kangaroo Hunt’ 39
  • Poetical Works of Francis W.L. Adams 39
  • ‘To India’ 223
• Adamson, Robert 211, 337, 341
  • The Goldfinches of Baghdad, 337
• Adelaide, Debra 237
• Adelaide Festival 77–8
• Adelaide Fringe Festival 347
• The Adelaide Observer (periodical) 11
• Adey, Peter 358
  • Mobility 358
• Adiga, Aravind 211
  • The White Tiger 211
• Adler, Louise 140
• Adorno, Theodor 315–16, 319, 322
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment 315
• Aesop 14
  • Aesop’s Fables 14
• Against the Wind 395, 396, 398
• The Age (periodical) 10, 40, 89, 150, 165, 215, 256, 308
• A...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility
• Section A Literature in the Colony
• Section B Early Twentieth-Century Australia
• Section C Contemporary Australia
• Section D Australian Literary Studies in the Public Sphere
• Section E Australian Literature and the World
• Section F Key Themes in Australian Writing
• Section G Genre in Australian Literary Studies
• Index