The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 12: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 April 2017
- ISBN 9780199679775
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages654 pages
- Size 253x181x43 mm
- Weight 1310 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This multi-authored volume offers a comprehensive account of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The essays within explore the repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context, through a focus on the novel and short story.
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements and tendencies.
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. After the Second World War, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements towards independence in the Pacific islands, together with the turn toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial world, has called into question the standard national frames for literary history. This has resulted in an increasing recognition of formerly marginalised peoples and a repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context. This multi-authored volume explores the implications of such radical change through its focus on the novel and the short story, which model the crises in evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of postcolonial identities. The constant interplay between national and regional specificity and transnational linkages is mirrored in the structure of this volume, where parallel sections on national literatures are situated within a broadly inclusive comparative framework. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in literary genres (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced across these different regions. Attention is given not only to major authors but also to Indigenous and multicultural fiction , children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. A significant feature of this volume is its extensive treatment of the novel in the South Pacific. Chapters on book publishing, critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are included in this innovative presentation of a TransPacific postcolonial history of the novel.
This volume is a marvellous resource ... As it records the artists' and critics' efforts to showcase the local and transnational richness of novelistic production, this book will undoubtedly become a new bible for generations of literary researchers to come.
Table of Contents:
General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Editorial Note
Part I: Book History
Australia
Canada
Aotearoa/New Zealand
South Pacific
Part II: Identities in Transition
Australia
Canada
Aotearoa/New Zealand
South Pacific
Transnational Movements: Australia, Canada, New Zealand
Part III: Fictional Modes
Realist Fiction since 1950 (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific)
Historical Fiction (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific)
Modernist Fiction/Alternative modernisms (Australia, Canada, New Zealand)
Postcolonial Gothic (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific)
Postmodernist and Literary Experiments (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific)
Children's and Young Adult Novels (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific)
Part IV: Australia
Major Authors: Christina Stead, Patrick White, David Malouf
The Short Story in Australia
Aboriginal novels
Multicultural and Transnational Novels
Popular Fiction
Part V: Canada
Major Authors: Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje
The Short Story in Canada
First Nations Novels
Multicultural and Transnational Novels
Popular Fiction
Part VI: New Zealand
Major Authors: Janet Frame, Patricia Grace & Maurice Gee
The Short Story in Aotearoa/ New Zealand
Maori Novels in English
Multicultural and Transnational Novels
Popular Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime Fiction)
Part VII: South Pacific
Major Authors: Albert Wendt, Epeli Hau'ofa and Sia Figiel
Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: the 'first wave'
Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: the 'niu wave'
Part VIII: Critical Reception
Newspapers and Journals (across all four areas)
Literary Histories (across all four areas)
Bibliography
Index of Novelists Since 1950
General Index
