CALL FOR PAPERS
This critical project will involve the following authors: Patrick White, David Malouf, Judith Wright and Peter Carey. The tentative titles of the volumes in the series are:
Concept Note:
Australian literature has been included as a distinct component in many major universities in India. The major Australian authors mentioned are already included in the syllabi of the universities. This critical series is intended to cater to the needs of teachers, students and researchers engaged in the dissemination of Australian Studies in India.
These four authors chosen for the series may be regarded as four major pillars in the history of Australian literary culture. The critical rationale for choosing these authors is that they represent diverse ramification of their creative ideology. Since the rise of cultural nationalism in the post-Confederation period and the rapid industrialisation with the emergence of the gold-diggers, squatters and prospectors, Australian cultural landscape underwent multiple transformations. These authors represent the developing horizons of Australian literary culture in order to make sense of diverse subfields that they iconise in their creative endeavour. This diversity is evident in their specific attempts to experiment with the tradition that they inherit.
Judith Wright, for instance, holds a unique position in terms of developing a tripartite critical position in the perception of her specific self as a woman, her preoccupations with the landscape and her role as a conservationist.
Patrick White interrogates the questions of cultural nationalism in terms of re-mapping the Australian history and culture. Starting his career as a jackaroo and projecting it significantly in his first novel A Happy Valley, he begins to construct the narratives of Australian history in his novels.
David Malouf questions the intriguing problematic of identity and nationalism in his novels. His mixed racial background, interpolated by his perceptions of individual identity and culture, lends a multicultural colour to his novels. While in An Imaginary Life, he remythicises the Ovid legend, he questions the problem of Australian identity in The Great World by re-transforming the Buckley narrative relating to the settlement history of Australia.
Peter Carey, who has won the Booker prize twice, is the most prolific writer of Australia. Though he relocated in the USA, he has continued to re-tell and re-mythicise the Australian narratives of history. He re-writes the Ned Kelly Legend (True History of the Kelly Gang), transforms the Dickensian narrative (Jack Maggs), takes issues with the early settlement history (Bliss) or even experiments with the travelogue form in the tradition of an “Australian Abroad”.
Submission Guideline:
Papers should be sent to jatism@gmail.com
Feel free to contact me @ +91- 9434386738
If interested, kindly respond to this mail at your earliest convenience.
Assistant professor of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, WB
&
Australia India Council Fellow.
This critical project will involve the following authors: Patrick White, David Malouf, Judith Wright and Peter Carey. The tentative titles of the volumes in the series are:
- Judith Wright: Poet and Conservationist
- Re-imagining the Australian Nation: A Study of Patrick White’s Novels
- Race, Cultures and Ethnicity in David Malouf’s Novels
- History, Myth and Re-writing: A Study of Peter Carey’s Novels
Concept Note:
Australian literature has been included as a distinct component in many major universities in India. The major Australian authors mentioned are already included in the syllabi of the universities. This critical series is intended to cater to the needs of teachers, students and researchers engaged in the dissemination of Australian Studies in India.
These four authors chosen for the series may be regarded as four major pillars in the history of Australian literary culture. The critical rationale for choosing these authors is that they represent diverse ramification of their creative ideology. Since the rise of cultural nationalism in the post-Confederation period and the rapid industrialisation with the emergence of the gold-diggers, squatters and prospectors, Australian cultural landscape underwent multiple transformations. These authors represent the developing horizons of Australian literary culture in order to make sense of diverse subfields that they iconise in their creative endeavour. This diversity is evident in their specific attempts to experiment with the tradition that they inherit.
Judith Wright, for instance, holds a unique position in terms of developing a tripartite critical position in the perception of her specific self as a woman, her preoccupations with the landscape and her role as a conservationist.
Patrick White interrogates the questions of cultural nationalism in terms of re-mapping the Australian history and culture. Starting his career as a jackaroo and projecting it significantly in his first novel A Happy Valley, he begins to construct the narratives of Australian history in his novels.
David Malouf questions the intriguing problematic of identity and nationalism in his novels. His mixed racial background, interpolated by his perceptions of individual identity and culture, lends a multicultural colour to his novels. While in An Imaginary Life, he remythicises the Ovid legend, he questions the problem of Australian identity in The Great World by re-transforming the Buckley narrative relating to the settlement history of Australia.
Peter Carey, who has won the Booker prize twice, is the most prolific writer of Australia. Though he relocated in the USA, he has continued to re-tell and re-mythicise the Australian narratives of history. He re-writes the Ned Kelly Legend (True History of the Kelly Gang), transforms the Dickensian narrative (Jack Maggs), takes issues with the early settlement history (Bliss) or even experiments with the travelogue form in the tradition of an “Australian Abroad”.
Submission Guideline:
- All the papers will be peer reviewed.
- Authors should not submit any paper which is already under consideration by some other publisher.
- Paper should be within 6000 words.
- Papers should be properly formatted in MS Word, Times New Roman, font size 12 and with double spacing.
- Authors should follow the MLA Style 7.
- Please use endnote instead of footnote.
- Please submit a declaration about the originality of the paper and acknowledge if you borrow any idea from any previous work.
- Please send a brief bio-note containing contributor(s) name, institutional affiliation, etc. along with your paper.
Papers should be sent to jatism@gmail.com
Feel free to contact me @ +91- 9434386738
If interested, kindly respond to this mail at your earliest convenience.
Series editor
Jati Sankar Mondal.
Assistant professor of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, WB
&
Australia India Council Fellow.
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