Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Queering Mateship : David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas
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'David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas represent very different generations of gay men with migrant backgrounds, but both use the novel form as a way of articulating gay experience. Malouf, born 1934, started out as a poet, and continued to publish poetry for his entire career. His work is exquisitely styled and highly verbally self-conscious. As opposed to the meditative, scholarly Malouf, Tsiolkas, born 1965, is far grittier and rancorous in his approach. Loaded (1995) details a world of drug use and casual sex, whereas Dead Europe (2005) overturns the traditional Australian nostalgia for and even pretention about continental Europe by examining its sordid post-Cold War reality. Though Malouf and Tsiolkas are very different writers, their concern with aesthetics, history, and what it might be to live in a community make their juxtaposition not just heuristic but inevitable. This chapter explores one convergence between them: their queering of mateship.' (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. 274-288
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Subjects:
  • Loaded Christos Tsiolkas , 1995 single work novel
  • Dead Europe Christos Tsiolkas , 2005 single work novel
  • Johnno : A Novel David Malouf , 1975 single work novel
  • Ransom David Malouf , 2009 single work novel
  • Merciless Gods Christos Tsiolkas , 2014 single work short story
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