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'This chapter focuses on the period from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, a watershed period in Australia-US literary relations, which saw the publication in the US of Australian novelists Peter Carey, David Malouf, Jessica Anderson, Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Beverley Farmer among others, but which was also crossed by tensions and contradictions which led to confusion, disappointment, lost opportunities, and sometimes the outright rejection of important Australian authors and their books. Among these tensions, we look at three in particular: the promising but limited role played by the multinational publisher (in this case Penguin Books) offering Australian titles through its US affiliate (Viking Penguin); the intervention by literary agents in Australia - US literary publishing relations; and the difference in values between the two cultures, which served to hinder the appreciation of important works of Australian writing.' (p. 309)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Other People's Words 2001 single work autobiography
- Tirra Lirra by the River 1978 single work novel
- It's Raining in Mango 1987 single work short story
- Hunting the Wild Pineapple 1981 single work short story
- The Americans, Baby : A Discontinuous Narrative of Stories and Fragments 1972 selected work short story
- Forty-Seventeen 1988 selected work short story