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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.

Australian literature --- Authors, Australian --- Australian authors --- History and criticism. --- Littérature d'exil --- Écrivains exilés --- Écrivains australiens --- Littérature australienne --- Exiles' writings --- Expatriate authors --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique. --- Authors --- Authors, Exiled --- Literature --- literary studies --- literary criticism --- Australian literary criticism --- literature and neoliberalism --- Australia --- Neoliberalism

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Postcolonialism in literature. --- Littérature postcoloniale.

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Criticism --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.

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Australian literature is one of the world's richest, dealing not only with "local" Australian themes and issues but with those at the forefront of global literary discussion. This book offers a fresh look at Australian literature, taking a broad view of what literature is and viewing it with Australian cultural and societal concerns in mind. Especially relevant is the heightened role of indigenous people and issues following the landmark 1992 Mabo decision on Aboriginal land rights. But attention to other multicultural connections and the competing pull of Australia's continued connection to Great Britain are also enlightening. Chapters are devoted to internationally prominent writers such as Patrick White, Peter Carey, David Malouf, and Christina Stead; fast-rising authors such as Gerald Murnane and Tim Winton; less-publicized writers such as Xavier Herbert and Dorothy Hewett; and on prose fiction, poetry, and drama, women's and gay and lesbian writing, children's literature, and science fiction. The Companion goes beyond Eurocentric ideas of national literary history to reveal the full, resplendent variety of Australian writing.

Australian literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature australienne --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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This text offers a fresh look at Australian literature, taking a broad view of what literature is and viewing it with Australian cultural and societal concerns in mind.

Australian literature --- History and criticism --- English literature --- Aboriginal Land Rights. --- Australian Literature. --- Children's Literature. --- Christina Stead. --- David Malouf. --- Dorothy Hewett. --- Drama. --- Gay and Lesbian Writing. --- Gerald Murnane. --- Indigenous People. --- Multicultural. --- National Literary History. --- Patrick White. --- Peter Carey. --- Poetry. --- Prose Fiction. --- Science Fiction. --- Tim Winton. --- Women's Writing. --- Xavier Herbert. --- History and criticism.