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Shoemaker's primary concern is to look at the beginning of 'black people's' writing in Australia since the 1960s and focus on the nascent literary canon emerging through Aboriginal writing. Shoemaker moves the readership through non-Aboriginal authors such as Katharine Susannah Prichard (1929) and Xavier Herbert (1938) in a chapter entitled 'Popular Perceptions of Unpopular People to Progress and Frustrated Expectations: The Era Since 1961'. Where Aboriginal writing begins, for Shoemaker's purposes, is an area of literary production he describes as 'fourth world literature'.

In the first book-length study of Malouf, Neilsen concentrates primarily on a literary analysis of Malouf's first six novels from Johnno to The Great World (the 2nd edition also includes a chapter on Remembering Babylon). It also discusses the thematic connections between Malouf's fiction and some of his poetry.

Shoemaker's primary concern is to look at the beginning of 'black people's' writing in Australia since the 1960s and focus on the nascent literary canon emerging through Aboriginal writing. Shoemaker moves the readership through non-Aboriginal authors such as Katharine Susannah Prichard (1929) and Xavier Herbert (1938) in a chapter entitled 'Popular Perceptions of Unpopular People to Progress and Frustrated Expectations: The Era Since 1961'. Where Aboriginal writing begins, for Shoemaker's purposes, is an area of literary production he describes as 'fourth world literature'.

In the first book-length study of Malouf, Neilsen concentrates primarily on a literary analysis of Malouf's first six novels from Johnno to The Great World (the 2nd edition also includes a chapter on Remembering Babylon). It also discusses the thematic connections between Malouf's fiction and some of his poetry.

Discusses Richardson's novels in relation to their historical, cultural and intellectual context, and offers a sustained feminist interpretation of her work. Pratt combines contemporary feminist and narrative theory in arguing that feminism and narrative strategy are closely connected in Richardson's work.

Includes an introduction with biographical information, as well as a survey of Richardson's reputation and reception in Australia. Also includes a chronology of Richardson's life and an extensive list of secondary material.

'Christina Stead (1902-83) is regarded worldwide as one of Australia's greatest novelists. The New Yorker called her "the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf". This is the first volume to provide an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays and critical literature from the 1980s and '90s by a range of Australian, North American and English critics.' (Publication summary)

• Is the Australian publishing industry flourishing or floundering?
• What is the future of the book?
• Has lifestyle replaced literary publishing?
• Have new technologies revolutionised the nature of the industry?

'Making Books addresses these questions and many others in a wide-ranging study of contemporary Australian publishing. It also provides a sophisticated introduction to the structure and dynamics of the Australian publishing industry which turns over almost two billion dollars a year.

'Leading industry practitioners and academics analyse the industry in the context of social, cultural and legal forces. They write revealingly on the culture of the publishing house, editorial practice and policy, Bookscan, new technologies and the 'decline' of literary publishing.

'Making Books will be an indispensable companion for arts industry professionals, those in the publishing industry, and scholars of book history or publishing studies.' (Publisher's blurb)