Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-598) and indexes.
Contents:
List of contributors -- General editor's preface -- Introduction / Coral Ann Howells, Paul Sharrad, and Gerry Turcotte -- Editorial note -- Note on currency. Part 1 Book history : Australia / Katherine Bode -- Canada / George L. Parker -- Aotearoa/New Zealand / Elizabeth Caffin -- South Pacific / Linda Crowl. Part 2 Identities in transition : The novel in Australia from the 1950s / Brigid Rooney -- Canada / Cynthia Sugars -- Aoetearoa/New Zealand / Kristine Moffat -- South Pacific / Paul Sharrad -- Transnational movements: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific / Janet Wilson. Part 3 Fictional modes : Realist fiction since 1950: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific / Donna Coates -- Historical fiction: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific / Lydia Wevers -- Modernist fiction/alternative modernisms: Australia, Canada, New Zealand / Anouk Lang -- Postcolonial Gothic: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific / Gerry Turcotte -- Postmodernist and literary experiments: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific / Victoria Kuttainen and Greg Manning -- Children's and young adult novels: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific / Clare Bradford. Part 4 Australia : Major authors: Christina Stead, Patrick White, David Malouf / Margaret Harris -- The short story in Australia / Elizabeth Webby -- The indigenous Australian novel / Peter Minter and Belinda Wheeler -- Multicultural and transnational novels / Robyn Morris -- Popular fiction / Roslyn Weaver. Part 5 Canada : Major authors: Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje / Coral Ann Howells -- The short story in Canada / W.H. New -- Indigenous novels in Canada / Tara Hyland-Russell -- Multicultural and transnational novels / Isabel Carera Suárez -- Popular fiction / Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose. Part 6 New Zealand : Major authors: Janet Frame, Maurice Gee, Patricia Grace / Lawrence Jones -- The short story in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Dougal McNeill -- Māori novels in English / Christine Prentice -- Multicultural and transnational novels / James Meffan -- Genre fiction since 1950: crime fiction, dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy / Jennifer Lawn. Part 7 South Pacific : Major authors: Albert Wendt, Sia Figiel, Epeli Hau'ofa / Michelle Keown -- Indigenous Pacific fiction in English: the "first wave" / Steven Winduo -- Indigenous Pacific fiction in English: the "niu wave" / Mohit Prasad. Part 8 Critical reception : Newspapers and journals / Linda Crowl, Susan Fisher, Elizabeth Webby, and Lydia Wevers -- Literary histories / Eva-Marie Kröller. Combined bibliography -- Index of novelists since 1950 -- General index.
Summary:
Offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. After the Second World War, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements towards independence in the Pacific Islands, together with the turn toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial world, has called into question the standard national frames for literary history. This has resulted in an increasing recognition of formerly marginalized peoples and a repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context. this multi-authored volume explores the implications of such radical change through its focus on the novel and the short story, which model the crises in evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of postcolonial identities. The constant interplay between national and regional specificity and transnational linkages is mirrored in the structure of this volume, where parallel sections on national literatures are situated within a broadly inclusive comparative framework. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in literary genres (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced across these different regions. Attention is given not only to traditionally canonical writers and works, but also to the dynamic activity of writers of Indigenous and multicultural fiction, children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. A significant feature of this volume is its extensive treatment of the novel in the South Pacific. Chapters on book publishing, critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are included in this innovative presentation of a Trans-Pacific postcolonial history of the novel.
Series:
The Oxford history of the novel in English ; volume twelve
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