Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Global Invention of the Australian Novel
- 2 Colonial Adventure Novels
- 3 Beyond Britain and the Book
- 4 Transnational Optics
- 5 The Novel in the Late Colonial Period
- 6 Love Is Not Enough
- 7 The Australian Crime Novel, 1830–1950
- 8 The Novel Nation
- 9 Selling Australian Stories to the World
- 10 Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930–1952
- 11 The National Trilogy and Mining
- 12 Nation and Environment in the Twentieth-Century Novel
- 13 Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the Transnational Fiction of Provincial Development
- 14 The Mid-Century Australian Novel and the End of World History
- 15 Race, Romance and Anxiety
- 16 Whiteness, Aboriginality and Representation in the Twentieth-Century Australian Novel
- 17 When the Twain Meet
- 18 From Bunyip to Boom
- 19 Unsettling Archive
- 20 The Novel at Arms
- 21 ‘Our Least-Known Best Seller’
- 22 Writing, Women and the Australian Novel
- 23 White Lies
- 24 The Economics of the Literary Novel
- 25 Mabo, History, Sovereignty
- 26 Indigenous Futurism
- 27 The Regional Novel in Australia
- 28 Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- 29 Grunge, Nation and Literary Generations
- 30 The Making of the Asian Australian Novel
- 31 Screening the Australian Novel, 1971–2020
- 32 Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 33 Uncertain Futures
- 34 A (Sovereign) Body of Work
- 35 The Novel Road to the Global South
- 36 The Fortunes of the Miles Franklin
- 37 The Arab Australian Novel
- 38 Riddling the Nation
- 39 Migrant Writing and the Invention of Australia
- Selective Bibliography: Studies of the Australian Novel, 2000–2021
- Index
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The Australian Novelist in Asia
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Global Invention of the Australian Novel
- 2 Colonial Adventure Novels
- 3 Beyond Britain and the Book
- 4 Transnational Optics
- 5 The Novel in the Late Colonial Period
- 6 Love Is Not Enough
- 7 The Australian Crime Novel, 1830–1950
- 8 The Novel Nation
- 9 Selling Australian Stories to the World
- 10 Women Writers and the Emerging Urban Novel, 1930–1952
- 11 The National Trilogy and Mining
- 12 Nation and Environment in the Twentieth-Century Novel
- 13 Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and the Transnational Fiction of Provincial Development
- 14 The Mid-Century Australian Novel and the End of World History
- 15 Race, Romance and Anxiety
- 16 Whiteness, Aboriginality and Representation in the Twentieth-Century Australian Novel
- 17 When the Twain Meet
- 18 From Bunyip to Boom
- 19 Unsettling Archive
- 20 The Novel at Arms
- 21 ‘Our Least-Known Best Seller’
- 22 Writing, Women and the Australian Novel
- 23 White Lies
- 24 The Economics of the Literary Novel
- 25 Mabo, History, Sovereignty
- 26 Indigenous Futurism
- 27 The Regional Novel in Australia
- 28 Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- 29 Grunge, Nation and Literary Generations
- 30 The Making of the Asian Australian Novel
- 31 Screening the Australian Novel, 1971–2020
- 32 Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 33 Uncertain Futures
- 34 A (Sovereign) Body of Work
- 35 The Novel Road to the Global South
- 36 The Fortunes of the Miles Franklin
- 37 The Arab Australian Novel
- 38 Riddling the Nation
- 39 Migrant Writing and the Invention of Australia
- Selective Bibliography: Studies of the Australian Novel, 2000–2021
- Index
Summary
From the nineteenth century to the present and covering a range of novelistic styles, Australians have sought imaginative possibilities in the Asia Pacific region. This chapter draws upon an extensive database of Australian writing on Asia to map the variety and range of Australian fiction set in or dealing with Asia. Main genres include invasion novels, which date from the late nineteenth century; a growing body of popular fiction, drawing at first on Asian settings and later employing Asian characters; fiction drawing on narratives of travel; and explorations of Australia’s evolving identity as a predominantly white nation in an Asian region. This chapter is structured around seven key texts which illustrate key themes and modes of writing.
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- The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel , pp. 288 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023