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Shirley Hazzard - Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist (Hardcover, New)
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Shirley Hazzard - Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambria Australian Literature
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Shirley Hazzard is one of Australia's most significant expatriate
authors, and a major international literary figure by any measure.
Her work has been extensively and extravagantly praised by writers
and reviewers, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard
Ford: 'If there has to be one best writer working in English today
it's Shirley Hazzard.' Similarly, novelist Michael Cunningham: 'One
of the greatest writers working in English today, and London Times
critic Brian Appleyard 'For me, the greatest living writer on
goodness and love'. She has received major literary awards
including the 2003 US National Book Award, the 2004 Miles Franklin
Award, the 2005 William Dean Howells Medal for best American novel,
the 1981 US National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, the 1977 O.
Henry Short Story Award; and has been shortlisted for the Orange
Prize and the ('Lost') Man Booker prize. She is a Fellow of the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and an Honorary
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Despite the
critical acclaim for Hazzard's work, there has not yet been a full
critical study, and only a handful of scholarly articles have been
published since the early 1990s. This scholarly neglect is in part
a consequence of Hazzard's complicated location outside the limits
of national literary canons. In particular, Hazzard's highly
significant writing about the United Nations has never before been
considered by critics, and it is not widely known today that she
was the first writer to publish an account of the US State
Department McCarthyist involvement in UN hiring of staff from its
earliest years, and the first person to air claims that UN
Secretary-general Kurt Waldheim had concealed details of his World
War II activities. This public writing stands in a fascinating
relation to her highly wrought literary fiction, presenting
particular challenges to her critics and readers. This study brings
together Hazzard's highly regarded literary fiction and her
impassioned, polemical critiques of the United Nations through the
rubrics of her humanist thought and her deep commitment to
internationalist, cosmopolitan principles.This is an important book
for all literature, Australian literature, women writers and
contemporary fiction collections.
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