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Fabulating Beauty C│ ross ultures Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English 78 Series Editors Gordon Collier (Giessen) Hena Maes–Jelinek (Liège) Geoffrey Davis (Aachen) Fabulating Beauty Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey Edited by Andreas Gaile Amsterdam - New York, NY 2005 The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of "ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence". ISBN: 90-420-1956-5 (Bound) ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2004 Printed in The Netherlands To Gloria This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents PAUL KANE Preface: Framing Peter Carey xi Acknowledgements xv Introduction xix P A R T I: T H E W R I T E R AND HIS WORK ANDREAS GAILE The “contrarian streak”: An Interview with Peter Carey KAREN LAMB Bringing Australia Home: Peter Carey, the Booker, and the Repatriation of Australian Culture P A R T II: A S P E C T S AND 3 17 OVERVIEWS ANDREAS GAILE Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture: Peter Carey’s Mythistorical Novels 33 CHRISTER LARSSON Cross References: Allusions to Christian Tradition in Peter Carey’s Fictions 53 PETER PIERCE Kinds of Captivity in Peter Carey’s Fiction 71 T H E O D O R E F. S H E C K E L S The Difficulties of Translating Peter Carey’s Postmodern Fiction into Popular Film 83 NICHOLAS BIRNS “A Dazzled Eye”: “Kristu-Du” and the Architecture of Tyranny 101 P A R T III: P E R S P E C T I V E S ON INDIVIDUAL FICTIONS CORNELIA SCHULZE Peter Carey’s Short Stories: Trapped in a Narrative Labyrinth 117 ] NICHOLAS JOSE Bliss and Damnation: Peter Carey in Australia 137 ] BRIAN EDWARDS Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey’s Illywhacker 149 ] LYN MCCREDDEN Sacred Exchange: Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda 171 ANSGAR NÜNNING “The Empire had not been built by choirboys”: The Revisionist Representation of Australian Colonial History in Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda 179 ] BILL ASHCROFT Simulation, Resistance and Transformation: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 199 ] PAM MACINTYRE Regarding The Big Bazoohley 215 ] ANNEGRET MAACK Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs: An Aussie Story? 229 BARBARA SCHMIDT–HABERKAMP The Writing-Back Paradigm Revisited: Peter Carey, Jack Maggs, and Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 245 BRUCE WOODCOCK Unsettling Illusions: Carey and Capital in Jack Maggs 263 ] CAROLYN BLISS “Lies and Silences”: Cultural Masterplots and Existential Authenticity in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang 275 S U S A N K. M A R T I N Dead White Male Heroes: True History of the Kelly Gang, and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions 301 ] A N T H O N Y J. H A S S A L L A Wildly Distorted Account? Peter Carey’s 30 Days in Sydney 319 ] ROBERT MACFARLANE Monstrosity, Fakery and Authorship in My Life as a Fake 335 Bibliography 349 Notes on the Contributors 409 Index 417 This page intentionally left blank Preface: Framing Peter Carey P AUL K ANE I N B R I N G I N G T O G E T H E R T H E S E E S S A Y S A N D W R I T I N G S on the work of Peter Carey, Andreas Gaile has performed a service for which we may be gratefu