TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birns, Nicholas
AB  - Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.   In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward.   Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice - one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it.
DO  - 10.30722/sup.9781743324363
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625670
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 917890176
KW  - Literature
KW  - Australian literature
KW  - literary studies
KW  - literary criticism
KW  - Australian literary criticism
KW  - literature and neoliberalism
KW  - Australia
KW  - Australian literature
KW  - Neoliberalism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/58770321-8601-4067-a3a4-931d1626cb48/625670.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31722
PB  - Sydney University Press
PP  - Sydney
PY  - 2015-12-01
SN  - 9781743324783
TI  - Contemporary Australian Literature : A World Not Yet Dead
ER  - 
