Coda: What’s (Not) in a Name? single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Coda: What’s (Not) in a Name?
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'This short coda is an apologia disguised as a question. It asks: what’s not in Peter Carey—the name? Descriptors like the national, the global, the celebrity author, all fail to capture the full story: of giving up lucrative careers for writing, of small cruelties along the way, commercially catastrophic novels, the anxieties of dealing with publishers that simply will not take Australian literature seriously—of a whole box of rejection letters in the archive. Somewhere in the recesses of Carey’s fiction lie the story of these sacrifices, compromises, and expectations that slip through the narrative of globalising authorship.' (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. 195-219
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