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Journal articles on the topic "Contemporary Australian fiction"

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Wilson, Kim. "Abjection in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 11, no. 3 (December 1, 2001): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2001vol11no3art1325.

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Carter, David. "The literary field and contemporary trade-book publishing in Australia: Literary and genre fiction." Media International Australia 158, no. 1 (January 7, 2016): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x15622078.

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This article examines fiction as a major sector of trade-book publishing in exploring the place of Australian publishing within a globalised industry and marketplace. It traces the function of ‘literary fiction’ as industry category and locus of symbolic value and national cultural capital, mapping its structures and dynamics in Australia, including the impact of digital technologies. In policy terms, literature and publishing remain significant sites of national and state government investment. Following Bourdieu’s model of the field of cultural production, the literary/publishing field is presented as exemplary rather than as a high-cultural exception in the cultural economy. Taking Thompson’s use of field theory to examine US and UK trade publishing into account, it analyses the industry structures governing literary and genre fiction in Australia, demonstrating the field’s logic as determined by the unequal distribution of large, medium-sized and small publishers. This analysis reveals distinctive features of the Australian situation within a transnational context.
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Leane, Elizabeth, and Stephanie Pfennigwerth. "Antarctica in the Australian imagination." Polar Record 38, no. 207 (October 2002): 309–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740001799x.

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AbstractAntarctica and Australia share a geographical marginality, a commonality that has produced and continues to reinforce historical and political ties between the two continents. Given this close relationship, surprisingly few fulllength novels set in or concerned with the Antarctic have been produced by Australian authors. Until 1990, two latenineteenth- century Utopias, and two novels by Thomas Keneally, were (to our knowledge) the sole representatives of this category. The last decade, however, has seen an upsurge of interest in Antarctica, and a corresponding increase in fictional response. Keneally's novels are ‘literary,’ but these more recent novels cover the gamut of popular genres: science fiction, action-thriller, and romance. Furthermore, they indicate a change in the perception of Antarctica and its place within international relations. Whereas Keneally is primarily concerned with the psychology of the explorer from the ‘Heroic Age,’ these younger Australian writers are interested in contemporary political, social, and environmental issues surrounding the continent. Literary critics have hitherto said little about textual representations of Antarctica; this paper opens a space for analysis of ‘Antarctic fiction,’ and explores the changing nature of Australian-Antarctic relations as represented by Australian writers.
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Kačer, Tomáš. "Czech translations and receptions of contemporary Australian fiction." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 58, no. 1 (January 2, 2022): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2021.1994755.

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Driscoll, Beth, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins, and David Carter. "The publishing ecosystems of contemporary australian genre fiction." Creative Industries Journal 11, no. 2 (May 4, 2018): 203–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2018.1480851.

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Hazell, Anne. "Meals in minutes: food in contemporary Australian adolescent fiction." Australian Library Journal 49, no. 2 (January 2000): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2000.10755916.

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Maver, Igor. "Contemporary Australian writers and Europe." Acta Neophilologica 33, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2000): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.33.1-2.7-16.

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It is amazing to see just how much travel writing, writing which does not exclusively belong to the travel sub-genre of "creative non-fiction", and also how many non-Australian locales, with emphasis on European and Asian ones, there are in the recent contemporary Australian writing since the 1960s. This perhaps speaks about a certain preoccupation or downright trait in the Australian national character. Perhaps, it is a reflection of a particular condition of being "down under", itself derived from "a tradition of colonialism and post-colonialism; from geographical location, both a deterrent and a spur; from post-Romantic literary tradition, coinciding with the early years of white settlement; and from the universal lure of ideas of travel, never more flourishing than at the present" (Hergenhan, Petersson xiii). Tourism is an increasingly global phenomenon to some extent shaping the physical reality as well as the spiritual world of the people involved in it. Within this globalization process, with the prospect of "cyber" travel, there is, however, always an individual "national" experience of the country of destination that a literary traveller puts into words, an experience which is typical and conditioned by specific socio-political and cultural circumstances.
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Vernay, Jean-François. "Sex in the City: Sexual Predation in Contemporary Australian Grunge Fiction." Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 2007, no. 107 (May 2007): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/000127907805259997.

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Ryan, Simon. "Books for boys: manipulating genre in contemporary Australian young adult fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 43, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 396–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2019.1649798.

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Alber. "Indigeneity and Narrative Strategies: Ideology in Contemporary Non-indigenous Australian Prose Fiction." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 9, no. 1-2 (2017): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.9.1-2.0159.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Contemporary Australian fiction"

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Dallmann, Tino [Verfasser]. "Telling Terror in Contemporary Australian Fiction / Tino Dallmann." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1105292754/34.

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Reid, Michelle. "National identity in contemporary Australian and Canadian science fiction." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413934.

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McGuire, Myles T. "Fruitful approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230862/1/Myles_McGuire_Thesis.pdf.

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"Fruitful approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in contemporary Australian fiction" investigates the application of Historical Materialist ontologies to gay-themed, contemporary Australian novels, examining these subjects through the lens of totality and reification.
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Bach, Lisa [Verfasser]. "Spatial Belonging: Approaching Aboriginal Australian Spaces in Contemporary Fiction / Lisa Bach." Gieߟen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121614284X/34.

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Huggan, Graham. "Territorial disputes : maps and mapping strategies in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29115.

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This dissertation represents an attempt to reflect and account for the diversity of maps and mapping strategies in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction. Its methodology, outlined in the opening chapter, draws on a combination of geographical and literary theory, placing particular emphasis on semiotic and other post-structuralist procedures (reconstructing the map as model; deconstructing the map as structure). The map is first defined as a representational model, as an historical document, and as a geopolitical claim. Its status as model, document or claim brings into play a series of mapping strategies including appropriation, division and marginalization. Attention is paid to the ways in which feminist, regional and ethnic writers have questioned these definitions and resisted or adapted these strategies. Basic principles for a "literary cartography" are thus established deriving from conceptual definitions, social and political implications, and diverse fictional applications of the map. "Grounds for comparison" are then established between English and French writing in Canada, and between the literatures of Canada and Australia, by outlining a brief history of maps and mapping strategies in those areas. Three significant precursors of the contemporary period of literary cartography are discussed: Patrick White, Margaret Atwood, and Hubert Aquin, leading to an overview of patterns and implications of cartographic imagery in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction from 1975 to the present. The layout for this overview is fourfold: "Maps and Men" discusses the map as a constrictive or coercive device which reinforces the privileges of a patriarchal literary/cultural tradition; "Maps and Myths" examines the map as a mythic paradigm for the revision or transformation of "New World" history; "Maps and Dreams" exposes the map as an oneiric construct allied to the exercise, but also to the potential critique, of colonial authority, and "Maps and Mazes" outlines the map as a self-parodic analogue for the labyrinthine structure and diversionary tactics of the contemporary (post-colonial) literary text. Generalizations inevitably made in this overview are offset by a more detailed analysis, from a comparative perspective, of a number of specific texts. Topics for discussion in this section include the deterritorialization of "cartographic space" in contemporary fictions by women in Canada and Australia, the de/reconstruction of "New World" history in Canadian and Australian historiographic metafiction, and the promulgation of alternative hypotheses of synthesis or hybridity in the spatially and culturally decentralized ("international "/"regional ") text. The dissertation concludes by considering the wider implications of these revisionist "cartographic" procedures for post-colonial literatures and for the future of post-colonial societies/cultures seeking to free themselves from the conceptual legacy of their colonial past.
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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette Weeda-Zuidersma Jeannette. "Keeping mum representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature : a fictocritical exploration /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054/.

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Ham, Rosalie, and rosalieh@optusnet com au. "Representations of men and women of the bush in Australian fiction." RMIT University. Creative Media, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080110.100527.

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At the heart of this exegesis is the city-bush gap and the rivalry and stereotypes that gap has generated. I acknowledge how and why our national identity evolved from the writing of the 1890s but I argue that most current artists, particularly novelists, have failed to incorporate the ongoing cultural, societal and industrial changes that have occurred since, particularly in the last thirty years. I assert that the majority of artists still refer to and draw inspiration from established, inaccurate myths and stereotypes rather than the bush and Australian characters of today. Through examining three texts, Kate Grenville's The Idea of Perfection (Picador, Sydney, 1999), Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded (Random House, Sydney, 1995) and Silences Long Gone (Picador, Sydney, 1998) by Anson Cameron, I also point out how most artists in general have failed to keep pace with changes in the bush city cross-culture. My exegesis attempts to give an account of some deficiencies in contemporary Australian literature. In the creative component of this project, Summer at Mount Hope (Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney, 2005), I write, as did Anson Cameron in his book, Silences Long Gone, (Pan Macmillan, 1998) of a bush (in 1894) where city and bush rely on each other and technology pushes into the bush uniting city and bush, thus enhancing the economy, the cross cultural interdependence and advancing the commonality between the two. I replace stereotypical characters with less predictable characters whose traits sit easily in either bush or city culture and skew the Traditionalist role of bush and city.
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Bode, Katherine. "In/visibility : women looking at men's bodies in and through contemporary Australian women's fiction /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060120.161127/index.html.

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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette. "Keeping mum : representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature - a fictocritical exploration." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis argues that the non-representation and under-representation of mothering in contemporary Australian literature reflects a much wider cultural practice of silencing the mother-as-subject position and female experiences as a whole. The thesis encourages women writers to pay more attention to the subjective experiences of mothering, so that women’s writing, in particular writing on those aspects of women’s lives that are silenced, of which motherhood is one, can begin to refigure motherhood discourses. This thesis examines mother-as-subject from three perspectives: mothering as a corporeal experience, mothering as a psychological experience, and the articulations and silences of mothering-as-subject. It engages with feminist, postmodern and fictocritical theories in its discussion of motherhood as a discourse through these perspectives. In particular, the thesis employs the theoretical works of postmodern feminists Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva in this discussion . . . A fictional narrative also runs through the critical discussion on motherhood. This narrative, Catherine’s Story, gives a personal and immediate voice to the mother-as-subject perspective. In keeping with the nature of fictocriticism, strict textual boundaries between criticism and fiction are blurred. The two modes of writing interact and in the process inform and critique each other.
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Emanuel, Elizabeth Frances. "Writing the oriental woman : an examination of the representation of Japanese women in contemporary Australian crime fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/64475/1/Elizabeth_Emanuel_Exegesis.pdf.

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This study considers the challenges in representing women from other cultures in the crime fiction genre. The study is presented in two parts; an exegesis and a creative practice component consisting of a full length crime fiction novel, Batafurai. The exegesis examines the historical period of a section of the novel—post-war Japan—and how the area of research known as Occupation Studies provides an insight into the conditions of women during this period. The exegesis also examines selected postcolonial theory and its exposition of representations of the 'other' as a western construct designed to serve Eurocentric ends. The genre of crime fiction is reviewed, also, to determine how characters purportedly representing Oriental cultures are constricted by established stereotypes. Two case studies are examined to investigate whether these stereotypes are still apparent in contemporary Australian crime fiction. Finally, I discuss my own novel, Batafurai, to review how I represented people of Asian background, and whether my attempts to resist stereotype were successful. My conclusion illustrates how novels written in the crime fiction genre are reliant on strategies that are action-focused, rather than character-based, and thus often use easily recognizable types to quickly establish frameworks for their stories. As a sub-set of popular fiction, crime fiction has a tendency to replicate rather than challenge established stereotypes. Where it does challenge stereotypes, it reflects a territory that popular culture has already visited, such as the 'female', 'black' or 'gay' detective. Crime fiction also has, as one of its central concerns, an interest in examining and reinforcing the notion of societal order. It repeatedly demonstrates that crime either does not pay or should not pay. One of the ways it does this is to contrast what is 'good', known and understood with what is 'bad', unknown, foreign or beyond our normal comprehension. In western culture, the east has traditionally been employed as the site of difference, and has been constantly used as a setting of contrast, excitement or fear. Crime fiction conforms to this pattern, using the east to add a richness and depth to what otherwise might become a 'dry' tale. However, when used in such a way, what is variously eastern, 'other' or Oriental can never be paramount, always falling to secondary side of the binary opposites (good/evil, known/unknown, redeemed/doomed) at work. In an age of globalisation, the challenge for contemporary writers of popular fiction is to be responsive to an audience that demands respect for all cultures. Writers must demonstrate that they are sensitive to such concerns and can skillfully manage the tensions caused by the need to deliver work that operates within the parameters of the genre, and the desire to avoid offence to any cultural or ethnic group. In my work, my strategy to manage these tensions has been to create a back-story for my characters of Asian background, developing them above mere genre types, and to situate them with credibility in time and place through appropriate historical research.
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Books on the topic "Contemporary Australian fiction"

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Lindsay, Elaine. Rewriting God: Spirituality in contemporary Australian women's fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

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Writing woman, writing place: Contemporary Australian and South African fiction. London: Routledge, 2003.

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1946-, Daniel Helen, ed. The Good reading guide: 100 critics review contemporary Australian fiction. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1989.

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1941-, Bail Murray, ed. The Faber book of contemporary Australian short stories. London: Faber, 1988.

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Lyn, Harwood, Pascoe Bruce, and White Paula, eds. The Babe is wise: Contemporary stories by Australian women. London: Virago, 1989.

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Scutter, Heather. Displaced fictions: Contemporary Australian books for teenagers and young adults. Carlton South, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1999.

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Territorial disputes: Maps and mapping strategies in contemporary Canadian and Australian fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

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Adams, Jennie. Australian Boss: Diamond Ring. Toronto: Harlequin, 2010.

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Gilbert, Pam. Coming out from under: Contemporary Australian women writers. London: Pandora, 1988.

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Lee, Miranda. The Playboy's Virgin: The Australian Playboys. Toronto, Ont: Harlequin Books, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Contemporary Australian fiction"

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Klein, Dorothee. "Feeling the Land: Embodied Relations in Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction." In The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities, 94–107. New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge focus on literature: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003161424-8-8.

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Burns, Belinda. "Made in Suburbia: Intra-suburban Narratives in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction." In Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing, 163–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50400-1_9.

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Meyer, Therese-M. "Exoticising Colonial History: British Authors’ Australian Convict Novels." In Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction, 37–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137375209_3.

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Klein, Dorothee. "Non-Egocentric Relations and Ambiguity in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria." In Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction, 107–39. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129882-5.

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Klein, Dorothee. "Introduction." In Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction, 1–27. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129882-1.

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Klein, Dorothee. "Non-Human (Narrative) Authority in Bruce Pascoe's Earth." In Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction, 28–49. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129882-2.

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Klein, Dorothee. "Stories, Language, and Sharing in Kim Scott's Taboo." In Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction, 166–91. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129882-7.

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Klein, Dorothee. "Place-Based Storytelling in Kim Scott's Benang and That Deadman Dance." In Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction, 50–82. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129882-3.

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Klein, Dorothee. "Conclusion." In Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction, 192–205. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129882-8.

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Klein, Dorothee. "Travelling Narratives and Community in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book." In Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction, 140–65. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003129882-6.

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