03670nam 22009253u 450 99619856030331620230421025315.01-78170-053-21-84779-430-010.7765/9781847794307(CKB)3450000000002763(EBL)1069463(OCoLC)818847120(SSID)ssj0000455462(PQKBManifestationID)12166335(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000455462(PQKBWorkID)10400037(PQKB)10398323(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085742(MiAaPQ)EBC1069463(DE-B1597)660844(DE-B1597)9781847794307(EXLCZ)99345000000000276320130418d1996|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrPeter Carey[electronic resource]Manchester Manchester University Press19961 online resource (234 p.)Contemporary World WritersDescription based upon print version of record.1-84779-515-3 0-7190-4360-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Chronology; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 The stories; 3 Bliss (1981); 4 Illywhacker (1985); 5 Oscar and Lucinda (1988); 6 The Tax Inspector (1991); 7 The Unusal Life of Tristan Smith (1994) and The Big Bazoohley (1995); 8 Jack Maggs (1997); 9 True History of the Kelly Gang (2000); 10 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis volume explores Carey's position not only as a great entertainer but also as a disturbing post-colonial writer, setting his work in relation to his life and his influences. Woodcock, using previously neglected radio interviews amongst other documents, sees Carey as a fictional shadow-maker, whose characters often inhabit the unpredictable borderlands of experience. Commenting on the fabulist, surrealist and postmodernist elements, the author also stresses the political concerns of Carey's fiction, and presents him as a hybrid writer who relishes the diversity of his varied imagining and hContemporary World WritersPostcolonialism in literatureAustraliaPostcolonialismEnglishHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCAustraliaIn literatureAmerican culture.American imperialism.Bliss.Illywhacker.Oscar and Lucinda.Peter Carey's fictions.Tax Inspector.Unusual Life of Tristan Smith.capitalism.counter-revolutionary resistance movement.fable-like scenarios.fictional practice.gender.humour.narrative modes.post-colonialism.post-modernism.retro-speculative fiction.twentieth-century Australian history.war crimes.Postcolonialism in literaturePostcolonialismEnglishEnglish LiteratureLanguages & Literatures823Woodcock Bruce457329AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK996198560303316Peter Carey2147172UNISA