After the Celebration Australian Fiction

An invaluable academic resource, this investigation tracks the trends of contemporary Australian fiction with clear, approachable language and well-known works to illustrate points. A complete study of the major genres of Australian fiction that have flourished since 1989, this reference covers the popularincluding crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and romance novelsas well as the literary. Novels used and referenced in this wide-ranging survey include Murray Bail'sEucalyptus, Kate Grenville'sSecret River, and Richard Flanagan'sGould's Book of Fish. Outside of studying literary themes, the effects of globalization on Australian fiction is also explored.

Ken Gelder is professor of literary studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction, The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction, Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field, Reading the Vampire, and Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice. Paul Salzman is an associate professor of English literature at La Trobe University. He is the author of Literary Culture in Jacobean England : Reading 1621 and Reading Early Modern Women's Writing. They are the coauthors of The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970–1988.

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Publishing, Publics, Themes	p. 1
Belonging	p. 19
Recolonising: Historical Fiction and the History Wars	p. 64
Literary Fiction	p. 95
Genre Fiction	p. 142
Is There a Women's Chapter?	p. 179
Literary Politics	p. 214
Notes	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 264
Index	p. 281
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After the Celebration Australian Fiction 1989-2007

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