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ISBN 10: 1783088168
ISBN 13: 9781783088164
Author: Brigid Rooney
‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time. ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ rethinks existing cultural debates about suburbia – in Australia and elsewhere – by putting novelistic representations of ‘suburbs’ (suburban interiors, homes, streets, forms and lives over time) in dialogue with the often negative idea of ‘suburbia’ in fiction as an amnesic and conformist cultural wasteland. ‘Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity’ shows, in other words, how Australian novels dramatize the collision between the sensory terrain of the remembered suburb and the cultural critique of suburbia. It is through such contradictions that novels create resonant mental maps of place and time. Australian novels are a prism through which suburbs – as sites of everyday colonization, defined by successive waves of urban development – are able to be glimpsed sidelong.
Suburban Space the Novel and Australian Modernity 1st Table of contents:
Part 1 Pre-1945 Suburbia
Chapter One Bungalow Modernism: D. H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo
Prefabricated Forms: Bungalow Suburbia and the (Modernist) Novel
From Inside to Outside: Kangaroo’s Bungalow Modernism
Chapter Two Breaking the Iron Circle: Women Writing the Suburbs, 1917–1944
From Suburb to City: Capel Boake’s Painted Clay
Alienating Home: Lesbia Harford’s The Invaluable Mystery
Returning Gaze: Christina Stead’s Suburban Sydney
(i) Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934)
(ii) For Love Alone (1944)
Part 2 Mid-Century Suburbia
Chapter Three Frontier Suburb, Interior Modernity: Patrick White’s the Tree of Man
The Tree of Man as a Figurative Mapping
Retrofitting the Frontier: White’s Modernist Suburban Interior
Chapter Four The Long Remove: Expatriate Visions of Suburbia
My Brother Jack’s Returning Gaze on Suburban Melbourne
Barbara Hanrahan’s Suburban Adelaide
Suburban Brisbane: David Malouf and Jessica Anderson
(i) Johnno (1975)
(ii) Tirra Lirra by the River (1978)
Recrossing the Bridge: Johnston’s Returning Gaze
Chapter Five Electric Suburbia: Reverberations and Legacies of Shock in Women’s Fiction
‘The Shock That Wakes the Spirit’s Sleep’: Elizabeth Harrower’s Fiction
Reverberating Legacies of Shock: Helen Hodgman’s Blue Skies and Ellen van Neerven’s Heat and Light
(i) Blue Skies
(ii) Heat and Light
Part 3 Post-Suburbia
Chapter Six Reflex, Reflection, Revision: Post-Suburban Novels
Melbourne Returns: From Corpseworld to Numinous Hills
Retro-Suburbia: Steven Carroll’s Real and Imagined Glenroy18
Chapter Seven Outer Suburban Tales
Allegorizing Outer Suburbia: Peter Carey’s The Tax Inspector
Botanizing Western Sydney: Luke Carman’s An Elegant Young Man
Indigenizing Bildung: Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs
Chapter Eight Suburban Globe: Homing Strangers, Estranging Home
Burning Down the House: Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs (2014)
Estranging Bildung: Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2012)
Hosting Suburbia: Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s The Tribe (2014)
Coda
Chapter Nine Refractions of Suburbia in Alexis Wright’s the Swan Book
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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