Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (Nathanael O’Reilly)
Chapter 1: Reading Post-Colonial Australia (Bill Ashcroft)
Chapter 2: Jack Lindsay, Patrick White, and Postcolonial Medievalism (Nicholas Birns)
Chapter 3: The Postcolonial Nature of an Australian Regional Literature (Per Henningsgaard)
Chapter 4: ‘Thick with Coded Testaments’: Representations of Postcolonial Space in Janette Turner Hospital’s Oyster (Nicholas Dunlop)
Chapter 5: Spaces of Hybridity: Creating a Sense of Belonging through Spatial Awareness (Lesley Hawkes)
Chapter 6: The Unbearable (Im)Possibility of Belonging: Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth (Martina Horakova)
Chapter 7: The Sorry Novels: Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda, Greg Matthews’ The Wisdom of Stones and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (Rebecca Weaver-Hightower)
Chapter 8: Need I Repeat?: Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Postcolonial Iterability in Kim Scott’s Benang (Michael R. Griffiths)
Chapter 9: Negotiating Subjectivity: Indigenous Feminist Praxis and the Politics of Aboriginality in Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise and Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs (Tomoko Ichitani)
Chapter 10: “[P]eople Often Judged by What They Feared or Knew Existed in Themselves”: A Postcolonial Critique of Disability in Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well (Katie Ellis)
Chapter 11: Revisiting Australia: Historical Fabrications, Telling Histories/Stories and Other Colonial Delusions in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake (Sarah Zapata)
Chapter 12: The Postcolonial Screen: Elaborate Forgeries in Rodney Hall’s The Second Bridegroom (Peter Mathews)
Chapter 13: Colonial Knowledge, Post-Colonial Poetics (Lyn McCredden)
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
