Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique

Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity

von Andrew McCann

178 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country's most politically engaged writers. These terms - recognition, commercial success, political engagement - suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas's fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility. 'Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique' traces these contradictions against Tsiolkas's acute sense of the waning of working-class identity, and reads his work as a sustained examination of the ways in which literature might express an opposition to capitalist modernity.

• Reihe: Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9781783084043
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2015
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Anthem Press