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181   $ctxt
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183   $acr
200 10$aPeter Carey$b[electronic resource]
210   $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d1996
215   $a1 online resource (234 p.)
225 1 $aContemporary World Writers
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-84779-515-3 
311   $a0-7190-4360-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; 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; Index
330   $aThis volume explores Carey's position not only as a great entertainer but also as a disturbing post-colonial writer, setting his work in relation to his life and his influences. Woodcock, using previously neglected radio interviews amongst other documents, sees Carey as a fictional shadow-maker, whose characters often inhabit the unpredictable borderlands of experience. Commenting on the fabulist, surrealist and postmodernist elements, the author also stresses the political concerns of Carey's fiction, and presents him as a hybrid writer who relishes the diversity of his varied imagining and h
410  0$aContemporary World Writers
606   $aPostcolonialism in literature$zAustralia
606   $aPostcolonialism
606   $aEnglish$2HILCC
606   $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC
606   $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC
607   $aAustralia$xIn literature
610   $aAmerican culture.
610   $aAmerican imperialism.
610   $aBliss.
610   $aIllywhacker.
610   $aOscar and Lucinda.
610   $aPeter Carey's fictions.
610   $aTax Inspector.
610   $aUnusual Life of Tristan Smith.
610   $acapitalism.
610   $acounter-revolutionary resistance movement.
610   $afable-like scenarios.
610   $afictional practice.
610   $agender.
610   $ahumour.
610   $anarrative modes.
610   $apost-colonialism.
610   $apost-modernism.
610   $aretro-speculative fiction.
610   $atwentieth-century Australian history.
610   $awar crimes.
615  0$aPostcolonialism in literature
615  0$aPostcolonialism
615  7$aEnglish
615  7$aEnglish Literature
615  7$aLanguages & Literatures
676   $a823
700   $aWoodcock$b Bruce$0457329
801  0$bAU-PeEL
801  1$bAU-PeEL
801  2$bAU-PeEL
906   $aBOOK
912   $a996198560303316
996   $aPeter Carey$92147172
997   $aUNISA