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The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 12: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 (Hardcover)
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 12: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series
presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of
English-language prose fiction and written by a large,
international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels
as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes
chapters on the processes of production, distribution and
reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as
well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements and
tendencies. This volume offers a comprehensive account of the
production of English language novels and related prose fiction
since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South
Pacific. After the Second World War, the rise of cultural
nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements
towards independence in the Pacific islands, together with the turn
toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial
world, has called into question the standard national frames for
literary history. This has resulted in an increasing recognition of
formerly marginalised peoples and a repositioning of these national
literatures in a world literary context. This multi-authored volume
explores the implications of such radical change through its focus
on the novel and the short story, which model the crises in
evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of
postcolonial identities. The constant interplay between national
and regional specificity and transnational linkages is mirrored in
the structure of this volume, where parallel sections on national
literatures are situated within a broadly inclusive comparative
framework. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their
effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in literary
genres (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced
across these different regions. Attention is given not only to
major authors but also to Indigenous and multicultural fiction ,
children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. A
significant feature of this volume is its extensive treatment of
the novel in the South Pacific. Chapters on book publishing,
critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are
included in this innovative presentation of a TransPacific
postcolonial history of the novel.
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