Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays

by Dixon Robert (Editor)

Overview

Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan's contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature.

Flanagan's fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of those whose voices have been lost beneath official accounts of history, stories from a small region that have made their mark on a global scale. Considering his seven novels as well as his non-fiction, journalism and correspondence, this collection examines the historical and geographical factors that have shaped Flanagan's representation of Tasmanian identity.

This collection offers new insights into a determinedly regional writer, and the impact he has had on a local, national and global scale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781743325827
Publisher:	Sydney University Press
Publication date:	10/12/2018
Series:	Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.49(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: the novels of Richard Flanagan, by Robert Dixon and Liliana Zavaglia

Circles of violence: historical Constellations in ‘Death of a River Guide’ and ‘The Sound of One Hand Clapping’, by Robert Dixon

Greening a narrative mode: antipodean magical realism and ecocriticism in Richard Flanagan's fiction, by Ben Holgate

Smashing and singing and sobbing and howling: sound and Richard Flanagan's Tasmania, by Joseph Cummins

Spatial anxieties: tourists, settlers and Tasmania's affective economies of belonging in ‘A Terrible Beauty’, ‘Death of a River Guide’ and ‘Gould's Book of Fish’, by Laura A. White

Rewriting History: ‘Gould's Book of Fish’, by Bill Ashcroft

Richard Flanagan's ‘post-post’ and the mapping of the altermodern, by Salhia Ben-Messahel

Contestations of authority: Richard Flanagan's Australian biofictions, by Marc Delrez

The genealogy of wanting, by Margaret Harris

Terror, paranoia and manipulation: the politics of fear in ‘The Unknown Terrorist’, by Nathanael O'Reilly

Sydney, a city without love: the unknown terrorist in ‘The Unknown Terrorist’, by Theodore F. Sheckels

‘Fireless flame gone amorous’: war amid love in ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’, by Nicholas Birns

‘Out of the tear-drenched land’: transnational sites of memory in ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’, by Liliana Zavaglia

Index