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- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Authorships
- Part III Futures
- 13 The Contemporary Western Sydney Novel
- 14 First Nations Transnationalism
- 15 Beyond the Cosmopolitan
- 16 Craft and Truth
- 17 Queering Mateship
- 18 Australian Fiction in the Anthropocene
- 19 What is the (Australian) Refugee Novel?
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
18 - Australian Fiction in the Anthropocene
from Part III - Futures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Authorships
- Part III Futures
- 13 The Contemporary Western Sydney Novel
- 14 First Nations Transnationalism
- 15 Beyond the Cosmopolitan
- 16 Craft and Truth
- 17 Queering Mateship
- 18 Australian Fiction in the Anthropocene
- 19 What is the (Australian) Refugee Novel?
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter investigates the response of the Australian novel to the Anthropocene. It considers ways in which new, speculative fictions have sought to represent deep time and planetary interconnection, and interrogates how this connects to long-standing settler-colonial relations to land. It considers such writers as James Bradley, George Turner, and Tara June Winch, and emphasizes the region of Western Australia as a place of particular environmental urgency.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel , pp. 289 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023