Overview
- Traces Carey’s visibility in relation to the construction of a new status for postcolonial authors
- Considers the shifts in the global publishing industry
- Contains extensive archival research of Australian author Peter Carey
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey’s literary career from his emergence in the Australian literary scene as a contributor to local literary magazines to when he published his fiction exclusively with large conglomerate publishers. As Australia’s most decorated author for a period nearing half a century, Carey’s career gives unparalleled insights into the global contemporary publishing and the making of global literary prestige from the periphery, and significant cultural currency for Australian literature and culture worldwide. Carey’s fiction is not only a product of the global dynamic in literary publishing of the last quarter of the twentieth century, but also it holds something of its productive tension for Australian writing and writers. Allahyari retraces the fraught synthesis of an individual literary proclivity with a growing commercial cultural appetite: the coincidence of Carey’s career with the conglomeration of global publishing pushed further towards anti-elitist, popular aesthetics.
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Reviews
“Keyvan Allahyari has done that rare thing: he has used the archive of a living author to help us see their work anew. By illuminating Carey’s place in global culture, Allahyari magnificently elucidates Carey’s astounding creative achievement as one of the foremost novelists working globally today.”
—Nicholas Birns, NYU, co-editor The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Keyvan Allahyari teaches in the English and Theatre Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in world literatures and contemporary Australian literature with a dual focus on border regimes and water imaginaries. His peer-reviewed journal articles have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Australian Humanities Review, JASAL, and Antipodes, among others. He is currently writing a book about Abdulrazak Gurnah and the oceanic world literatures.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peter Carey
Book Subtitle: The Making of a Global Novelist
Authors: Keyvan Allahyari
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27564-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27563-0Published: 12 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27566-1Published: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27564-7Published: 11 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 219
Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Literature, general, Contemporary Literature, Printing and Publishing, History of the Book, Celebrity Studies