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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
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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
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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
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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
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ROBERT MACFARLANE Monstrosity, Fakery and Authorship in My Life as a Fake
335
Bibliography
349
Notes on the Contributors
409
Index
417
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Preface: Framing Peter Carey
P AUL K ANE
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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