澳大利亚文学批评和理论
2010-6
青岛海洋大学出版社
(澳)卡特|主编:王光林
317
丛书的第7本《澳大利亚文学批评和理论》为我社首次出版，从出版的角度上来说并不属于原版书，但是，该书不但与《当代北美批评与理论导读》《当代英国及爱尔兰批评与理论导读》《当代欧洲批评和理论导读》一起构成了西方文学批评和理论研究的整体，而且作者多为国外著名学者，对澳大利亚文学批评和理论颇有研究，因此，我们也收入本丛书，以飨读者。
1．Is Australian Literature Post-Colonial?2．Post-Colonialism and Literary Criticism in Australia3．Settler Post－Colonialism and Australian Literary Culture4．Landscape and Australian Fiction5．Henry Kendall’S‘Aboriginal Man’：Autochthony and Extinctionin the Settler Colony6．Out of England：Literary Subjectivity in the Australian Colonies，1788——18677．Critics．Writers，Intellectuals：Australian Literature and Its Criticism8．Feminism and Australian Literature9．Australian Cultural Studies：Theory，Story，History10．Australian Literature and the Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation11．Reading History and Literary History：Australian Perspectives12．The Historiography of Reading in Australia13．Recent Australian Crime Fiction and Genre Publishing14．Australian Biography and Autobiography15．What the Cassowary Does Not Need to Know：An Essay inFictocriticism16．Critical Whiteness Studies and Australian Indigenous Literature17．A Reader Becomes What She Has Read：Reading，Writing，Whiteness18．Complicity，Critique and Methodology：Australian Con／texts19．Noongar Modernity and Jack Davis’S The Dreamers20．Work in Progress：Multiculturai Writing in Australia21．Identifying Differently：Recent Chinese-Australian Literature22．Narrating Success：Chinese Australians and Cultural Citizenship23．Colonial Hauntings：The Colonial Seeds of MulticulturalismNotes on ContributorsIndexAcknowledgements英文原版文学理论丛书
History The radical marginalising of Australian literature that occurred when Englishliterature became the vehicle for isseminating English national culturethroughout the Empire was reflected in the marginalisation of Australianhistory as well．History is intimately connected with cartography in theEuropean construction of world space and time．As Dipesh Chakrabartyfamously put it：Histories，whether‘Indian’，‘Chinese’or‘Kenyan’。become variations on a master narrative that could be called‘the History ofEurope’（1992，1）．History as an authoritative discourse is a story of theimpact of the West on the world．But fundamentally history is a narrativelike any other，formed by a process of selection and exclusion．In thisrespect history is‘fictional’because it assumes that human time proceeds，that life iS lived，in a 1inear way like a story．The narrative of imperialhistory translated very easily into national history，which becomes its．reflection in the way it organises national memory．The progress of imperial‘civilisation’into the wilds of Australia is amovement of history into the prehistorical terra nullius of Australian place．There is perhaps no better image of this than the image，in Peter Carey’SOscar and Lucinda（1 988），of a glass church being sailed up the BellingerRiver．The allegory of this journey is the allegory of imperial history itself：the classic journey of civilisation into the wild on its historic mission tO bringlight into the darkness．On the face of it，the novel is an engaging storyabout a naive religious boy who follows what he believes tO be God’S will。leaves his father’S church and makes his way across the terrifying sea toAustralia，where he conceives and xecutes a fantastic plan to build a glasschurch and sail it up the Bellinger river as a vicarious act of love for Lucinda．But Oscar’S journey is an ambivalent subversion of our usual assumptionsabout the progress of civilisation from Europe to Australia．The allegoricaljourney not only disrupts the fixity of history but also dismantles theteleology of history．
