Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey (Cross Cultures 78) (Cross Cultures: Readings in the Post Colonial Literatures in)

Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface: Framing Peter Carey......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
PART I: THE WRITER AND HIS WORK......Page 38
The “contrarian streak”: An Interview with Peter Carey......Page 40
Bringing Australia Home: Peter Carey, the Booker, and the Repatriation of Australian Culture......Page 54
PART II: ASPECTS AND OVERVIEWS......Page 68
Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture: Peter Carey’s Mythistorical Novels......Page 70
Cross References: Allusions to Christian Tradition in Peter Carey’s Fictions......Page 90
Kinds of Captivity in Peter Carey’s Fiction......Page 108
The Difficulties of Translating Peter Carey’s Postmodern Fiction into Popular Film......Page 120
“A Dazzled Eye”: “Kristu-Du” and the Architecture of Tyranny......Page 138
PART III: PERSPECTIVES ON INDIVIDUAL FICTIONS......Page 152
Peter Carey’s Short Stories: Trapped in a Narrative Labyrinth......Page 154
Bliss and Damnation: Peter Carey in Australia......Page 174
Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey’s Illywhacker......Page 186
Sacred Exchange: Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda......Page 208
“The Empire had not been built by choirboys”: The Revisionist Representation of Australian Colonial History in Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda......Page 216
Simulation, Resistance and Transformation: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith......Page 236
Regarding The Big Bazoohley......Page 252
Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs: An Aussie Story?......Page 266
The Writing-Back Paradigm Revisited: Peter Carey, Jack Maggs, and Charles Dickens, Great Expectations......Page 282
Unsettling Illusions: Carey and Capital in Jack Maggs......Page 300
“Lies and Silences”: Cultural Masterplots and Existential Authenticity in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang......Page 312
Dead White Male Heroes: True History of the Kelly Gang, and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions......Page 338
A Wildly Distorted Account? Peter Carey’s 30 Days in Sydney......Page 356
Monstrosity, Fakery and Authorship in My Life as a Fake......Page 372
Bibliography......Page 386
Notes on the Contributors......Page 446
A......Page 454
B......Page 455
C......Page 456
E......Page 460
G......Page 461
H......Page 462
I......Page 464
L......Page 465
M......Page 466
O......Page 468
P......Page 469
R......Page 471
S......Page 472
T......Page 473
W......Page 474
Y......Page 475