The Contemporary Western Sydney Novel single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Contemporary Western Sydney Novel
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'In Western Sydney, writers such as Luke Carman, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, and Felicity Castagna have produced novels written from the working-class and multicultural perspectives that are a far cry from mainstream visions of Sydney. Ahmed’s The Tribe (2014) is a multigenerational saga of a Lebanese Australian family that examines ideas of belonging and alienation, inclusion, and exclusion, which touch, but also exceed, identities of ethnicity and religion. Castagna’s novel No More Boats (2017), explores how an Italian migrant to Australia in the 1960s becomes, in the 2000s, a fervent conservative opponent of further migration to Australia by people from Asia and the Middle East. This chapter shows Western Sydney as the place where twenty-first century Australian literature is most vitally happening.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel Louis Klee (editor), Nicholas Birns (editor), Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 27222628 2023 anthology criticism

    'The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.' (Publication summary)

    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023
    pg. 211-227
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Subjects:
  • The Tribe Michael Mohammed Ahmad , 2014 selected work novella
  • No More Boats Felicity Castagna , 2017 single work novel
  • Western Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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