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Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a
privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a
physical object that occupies public and private space. This
collection interrogates the relationships between these differing
aspects of the novel's existence, negotiating the boundaries
between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies
of representation. This collection offers a wide array of
innovative novelistic explorations-with a focus ranging from
nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary literary theory-and
explores the portability of novels as both physical things and
virtual hermeneutic devices. While mimetic qualities of prose
remain an integral consideration for literary interpretation, this
collection argues for more diverse frameworks-ones that see
aesthetic components of the novel in close connection with reading
practices, shared structures of feeling, and the corporeal. In this
capacity, this volume will argue for readings of texts that
consider the capacity for literary culture to move through the
world, but also to make it or re-make it new.
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire
body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his
work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there
has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by
Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those
works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues
to makea contribution to both the Australian and the global canon
is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including
Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, for his
novels Benang (in 2000) and That Deadman Dance (in 2011). Scott has
also published in other literary genres, including poetry, the
short story, and children's literature, and he has written and
worked professionally on Indigenous health issues. Despite
Scott'snational and international acclaim, there is currently no
comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes his work for
scholars, students, and general readers. A Companion to the Works
of Kim Scott fills this void by providing a collection of eleven
original essays focusing on Scott's novels, short stories, poetry,
and his work with the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project
and Indigenous health. The companion also includes an
originalinterview with the author. Contributors: Christine Choo,
Arindam Das, Per Henningsgaard, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Jeanine Leane,
Brenda Machosky, Nathanael Pree, Natalie Quinlivan, Lydia Saleh
Rofail, Lisa Slater, Rosalie Thackrah and Sandra Thompson, Belinda
Wheeler, Gillian Whitlock and Roger Osborne. Belinda Wheeler is
Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, Orangeburg,
South Carolina.
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