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'This interview with contemporary Australian writer Brian Castro addresses a
number of themes and concepts that are central to his critical work and fiction. In the
interview, Castro discusses his oeuvre as a whole, providing insights into the starting
point for his first eight novels. He comments on the concepts of transgression, hybridity,
polyphonia, cosmopolitanism and play, underlining the central significance of grammar,
ethics and aesthetics in his work. The interview also includes reflections on the
development of Asian Australian studies and the importance of translating novels. In the
final sections of the interview, Castro discusses the relation between his critical work
and his novels and reflects on the common conflation of the novelist and the theorist in
much literary criticism.' Source: Marilyne Brun.
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Subjects:
- Pomeroy 1990 single work novel
- Double-Wolf 1991 single work novel
- Shanghai Dancing 2003 single work novel
- The Garden Book 2005 single work novel
- Birds of Passage 2005 single work novel
- Stepper 1997 single work novel
- Drift 1994 single work novel
- After China 1992 single work novel
- Looking for Estrellita 1999 selected work prose criticism biography
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