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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Richard Flanagan : Critical Essays
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Sydney University Press , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Novels of Richard Flanagan : An Introduction, Robert Dixon , Liliana Zavaglia , single work criticism

'On 14 October 2014 Richard Flanagan was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013). It was a signal moment not only in his own career but also in the international reception of Australian literature. In his acceptance speech and in media interviews in London, however, Flanagan identified with Tasmania rather than Australia, explaining, "I do not come out of a literary tradition. I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest on an island at the end of the world." Echoing Salman Rushdie in the wake of his own Booker win for Midnight's Children in 1981, Flanagan went on to claim that "Literary culture... is the vengeance of the edges on the centre".'

 (p. 1-19)
Circles of Violence: Historical Constellations in 'Death of a River Guide' and 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping', Robert Dixon , single work criticism (p. 21-41)
Greening a Narrative Mode: Antipodean Magical Realism and Ecocriticism in Richard Flanagan's Fiction, Ben Holgate , single work criticism (p. 43-57)
"Smashing and Singing and Sobbing and Howling": Sound and Richard Flanagan's Tasmania, Joseph Cummins , single work criticism (p. 59-71)
Spatial Anxieties: Tourists, Settlers and Tasmania's Affective Economies of Belonging in 'A Terrible Beauty', 'Death of a River Guide' and 'Gould's Book of Fish', Laura A. White , single work criticism (p. 73-85)
Rewriting History: 'Gould's Book of Fish', Bill Ashcroft , single work criticism (p. 87-101)
Richard Flanagan's "Post-post" and the Mapping of the Altermodern, Salhia Ben-Messahel , single work criticism (p. 103-117)
Contestations of Authority: Richard Flanagan's Australian Biofictions, Marc Delrez , single work criticism (p. 119-133)
The Genealogy of Wanting, Margaret Harris , single work criticism (p. 135-153)
Terror, Paranoia and Manipulation: The Politics of Fear in 'The Unknown Terrorist', Nathanael O'Reilly , single work criticism (p. 155-167)
Sydney, a City without Love: The Unknown Terrorist in 'The Unknown Terrorist', Theodore F. Sheckels , single work criticism (p. 169-177)
"Fireless flame gone amorous": War amid Love in 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', Nicholas Birns , single work criticism (p. 179-191)
"Out of the tear drenched land": Transnational Sites of Memory in 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', Liliana Zavaglia , single work criticism (p. 193-219)
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