Australian fiction as archival salvage : : making and unmaking the postcolonial novel / / Frances A. Johnson.

Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines key developments in the field of the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present. In parallel with this analysis, A. Frances Johnson undertakes a unique study of in-kind creativity, reflecting on how her own nascent historical fic...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures, Volume 187
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; Volume 187.
Physical Description:1 online resource (353 p.)
Notes:Originally presented as the author's Ph. D. thesis at the University of Melbourne.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / A. Frances Johnson
  • Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Historical Novel / A. Frances Johnson
  • Genre Memory: Australian Historical Novels in Context / A. Frances Johnson
  • Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Novel of History / A. Frances Johnson
  • Elision and Engagement: Writing Indigeneity in Post-Bicentennial Historical Novels / A. Frances Johnson
  • Postmodern Rats in the Ranks: The Novelist and the Historian as Raiders of the Colonial Archive / A. Frances Johnson
  • Speaking in Tongues: The Novelist as Historiographic Fool / A. Frances Johnson
  • Writing South of South: Extinction Discourse in Novelizations of Tasmanian Colonial Pasts / A. Frances Johnson
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Dry Dock / A. Frances Johnson
  • Appendix 1: Postcolonial/Post-Colonial Debates in Context / A. Frances Johnson
  • Appendix 2: Lessons in ‘The Lost Garden’: A First-Contact Tasmanian Historical Novel in Progress / A. Frances Johnson
  • Works Cited / A. Frances Johnson
  • Index / A. Frances Johnson.