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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The New Creative Economy
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'This chapter analyses Carey’s fiction and author-persona in relation to the aesthetic and sociological developments in the increasingly globalising literary marketplace of the 1980s and 1990s. In the previous chapter, I demonstrated that Carey’s entrance into the literary field as the most successful Australian short story writer of his generation was facilitated by developments such as University of Queensland Press’ (UQP) progress as a major publisher of Australian fiction, the establishment of the Literature Board, the ending of the Traditional Markets Agreement, and the rise of the countercultural literary magazine in Australia. In this chapter, Carey’s celebrity in the 1980s and the 1990s will be examined in relation to the politics of literary prizes, the prominence of postcolonial critique, and the changing politics of authorial promotion in the publishing industry.' (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. 55-106
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