Part III: Perspectives on Individual FictionsĬornelia SCHULZE: Peter Carey’s Short Stories: Trapped in a Narrative Labyrinth Nicholas BIRNS: “A Dazzled Eye”: “Kristu-Du” and the Architecture of Tyranny SHECKELS: The Difficulties of Translating Peter Carey’s Peter PIERCE: Kinds of Captivity in Peter Carey’s Fiction Karen LAMB: Bringing Australia Home: Peter Carey, the Booker, and the Repatriation of Australian CultureĪndreas GAILE: Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture: Peter Carey’s Mythistorical NovelsĬhrister LARSSON: Cross References: Allusions to Christian Tradition in Peter Carey’s Fictions Amidst predictions of the imminent death of ‘postist’ theory, the essays all attest to the ongoing relevance of the critical parameters framed by postmodernism and postcolonialism.Īndreas GAILE: The “contrarian streak”: An Interview with Peter Carey Contributors focus on issues as diverse as the writer’s biography his use of architectural metaphors his interrogation of narrative structures such as myths and cultural master-plots intertextual strategies concepts of sacredness and references to the Christian tradition and his strategies of rewriting history. The studies represent a wide range of current perspectives on the writer’s fictions. It brings together the voices of many of the most renowned Carey critics in twenty essays (sixteen commissioned especially for this volume), an interview with the author, as well as the most extensive bibliography of Carey criticism to date. Letters as designated heir to Patrick White.įabulating Beauty pays tribute to Carey’s literary achievement. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian Readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries
While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general
Peter Carey is one of Australia’s finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public.
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