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. Contrary to the
despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues
to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many.
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