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'This chapter is a note on the how and the why of my method in dialogue with existing scholarship on Carey. It shows that conceptualising Carey in the context of global literature helps us to appreciate, not only his larger body of work for its complex representation of concurrent cultural economics, but also the ways that the process of production in the publishing industry coalesces with the mechanics of diffusion and the regimes of reception. Here, I broach my central questions: how and, to what extent, can we think of Carey’s fiction and his writerly persona as cultural objects circulating within the global literary marketplace? How does his fiction refract the market forces that manufacture his books and his celebrity? What is the relationship between Carey’s stories and the literary marketplace, between the making of his books and the reading of them? And what possibilities of resistance against the vagaries of neoliberal publishing remain for Carey as an avowedly postcolonial writer? ' (Publication abstract) 

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    y separately published work icon Peter Carey : The Making of a Global Novelist Keyvan Allahyari , Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2023 26408788 2023 multi chapter work criticism biography

    'Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey's literary career from his emergence in the Australian literary scene as a contributor to local literary magazines to when he published his fiction exclusively with large conglomerate publishers. As Australia's most decorated author for a period nearing half a century, Carey's career gives unparalleled insights into the global contemporary publishing and the making of global literary prestige from the periphery, and significant cultural currency for Australian literature and culture worldwide. Carey's fiction is not only a product of the global dynamic in literary publishing of the last quarter of the twentieth century, but also it holds something of its productive tension for Australian writing and writers. Allahyari retraces the fraught synthesis of an individual literary proclivity with a growing commercial cultural appetite: the coincidence of Carey's career with the conglomeration of global publishing pushed further towards anti-elitist, popular aesthetics.'  (Publication summary)

    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2023
    pg. 9-30
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