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Paul Sharrad Paul Sharrad i(A85602 works by) (a.k.a. P. S.; P. Sharrad)
Born: Established: 1949 Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Review of Gail Jones : Word, Image, Ethics, by Tanya Dalziell Paul Sharrad , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 April vol. 36 no. 1 2021;

— Review of Gail Jones : Word, Image, Ethics Tanya Dalziell , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Grouping sets of novels and stories to elucidate the functions of key tropes in Jones’s fiction, Dalziell covers the writer’s entire output up to 2020. With recourse to the novelist’s essays and interviews, chapters provide close readings of weather, time, reading and writing, image and modernity. The interest overall is to show how unstable oscillations in the stories serve to express an idea of ethical relations as tentative constructions of community aware of their limitations, both in life and literature.' (Publication abstract)

1 “​Indigenous Transnational : Pluses and Perils and Tara June Winch​.” Paul Sharrad , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November no. 12 2020;
'In the context of the "transnational turn" in Australian literary studies, I consider the dynamics of writing and reading by and around Aboriginal literature. Positioning of authors, books and readings across, through and beyond nation spaces has particular challenges for Indigenous writers who locate identity on "country", with reception determined largely by a national framing. Informed by work from Lynda Ng, Chadwick Allen and others, the article examines the transnational movements of and around the fiction of Tara June Winch.' (Publication abstract)
1 Australian Literature in Asia : China and India David Carter , Paul Sharrad , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020;
1 Mudrooroo, Tripping with Jenny Paul Sharrad , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 19 no. 2 2019;

— Review of Tripping with Jenny Mudrooroo , 2019 single work autobiography
'Back when Mudrooroo was Colin Johnson, he was hanging out in jazz dives in Melbourne being hip and earning royalties from Wild Cat Falling. He married Jenny Katinas, who migrated as a child from Latvia, and with two other Euro-Australians they hit the road to Asia. In his last years, after many more books and much scandal, the writer recalls his youthful journeys with ‘his first wife,’ in the process revealing something of the sense of self that underpinned all his later work.' (Introduction)
1 2 y separately published work icon Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine Paul Sharrad , London : Anthem Press , 2019 17395791 2019 multi chapter work criticism

'Thomas Keneally is known as a best-selling novelist and public figure in his Australian homeland and has also managed a transnational career. He is, however, something of a conundrum in being regularly disparaged by critics and often failing to meet expectations of sales. ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains some of the reasons behind such disparities, focusing in part on his deliberate transition from high-style modernist to ‘journeyman’ entertainer while continuing to write across both modes.

'Reactions to this shift have been framed by critical and cultural investments, and by an idea of the literary career common to both high literary and popular taste. This study examines the complex network that is a career, considering personality traits, authorial agency, agents, editors and shifts in publishing from colonial control to multinational corporations. As such, the study moves across and beyond conventional literary biography and literary history, incorporating aspects of book history and celebrity studies.

'In doing so, this book relies on Keneally’s extensive archive, much of it previously unexamined. It shows his ambition to earn his living from writing playing out across three markets, his work in other modes (writing for the stage and screen, travel writing, historical narratives) and the breadth and depth of expressions of his social conscience, including political protest, leading professional associations and work for constitutional reform, the Sydney Olympics, and so on. Keneally is seen as playing a long game across several events rather than honing one specialist skill, a strategy that has sustained for more than 50 years his keenness to live off writing.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Of Indian Origin : Writings From Australia Paul Sharrad (editor), Meeta C. Padmanabhan (editor), Himayatnagar : Orient Black Swan , 2018 14349750 2018 anthology poetry prose

'Of Indian Origin is a dazzling collection of short stories and poetry by Australian writers of Indian origin. Cultures collide as children encounter racism in the playgrounds of Canberra, migrant women scrounge for a living nursing Melbourne's elderly, and a young author moves to a strange and unfamiliar country where she suffers from dreamlessness. These searing works bring new meaning to the field of ‘Asian-Australian writing’ and new perspectives on the Indian diasporic experience. Though the field of Indian-Australian writing is still small, this vibrant mix of emerging and established writers shows it is by no means a homogenous entity. Bold, experimental and wildly original, Of Indian Origin unapologetically tackles issues of home and provides a unique overview of how Indian-Australian literary writing has developed over half a century.'  (Publication summary)

1 Check Your Metaphors : Review Essay Paul Sharrad , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 10 no. 1 2017;

'It has been a source of wonder to me how the Netherlands has kept publishing sometimes quite arcane scholarly works when everywhere else has succumbed to market forces and multinational mergers. Despite (science-based) research measurements and other publishers’ reluctance to accept collections of conference papers, Rodopi, for some decades now, has managed to put out edited collections of literary studies grouped under the ‘Commonwealth’ or ‘postcolonial’ label, the best known being the ‘Cross/Cultures’ series. Some of its volumes have been influential in shifting critical focus and introducing new writing to the world.' 

1 1 y separately published work icon The Oxford History of the Novel in English : The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 Coral Ann Howells (editor), Paul Sharrad (editor), Gerry Turcotte (editor), Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 12006182 2017 anthology criticism

'The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements and tendencies.

'This volume offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. After the Second World War, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements towards independence in the Pacific islands, together with the turn toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial world, has called into question the standard national frames for literary history. This has resulted in an increasing recognition of formerly marginalised peoples and a repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context. This multi-authored volume explores the implications of such radical change through its focus on the novel and the short story, which model the crises in evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of postcolonial identities. The constant interplay between national and regional specificity and transnational linkages is mirrored in the structure of this volume, where parallel sections on national literatures are situated within a broadly inclusive comparative framework. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in literary genres (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced across these different regions. Attention is given not only to major authors but also to Indigenous and multicultural fiction, children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. A significant feature of this volume is its extensive treatment of the novel in the South Pacific. Chapters on book publishing, critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are included in this innovative presentation of a TransPacific postcolonial history of the novel.' (Publication summary)

1 Children of the Church Paul Sharrad , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2017;
'Until Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize for Schindler’s Ark in 1982, the author bio in his books always included the line, ‘He trained for several years for the Catholic priesthood but did not take Orders’. As a young man, Keneally ran up against a psychosomatic paralysis telling him he could not commit to an institution that frowned on literary pursuits, sent a few of its postulants mad, and showed a lack of charity towards its own. It pushed Keneally onto the street and into writing. Historian John Molony, friend and fellow ex-seminarian, once told Keneally that he would not become a great novelist until he had written the church out of his system. If his publishers thought he had, and dropped mention of his church ties once he got to the Schindler story, in fact, his continued exploration of how mortal weakness, religious ideals and institutional tyrannies are enmeshed has constituted the core of his art over a long career.' (Introduction)
1 The Lion, the Tiger and the Kangaroo : A Tale of Transnational Networks Paul Sharrad , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 51 no. 1 2016; (p. 9-21)
'Commonwealth literary studies functioned for some time as comparative work across discrete national literary cultures. Using the curious instance of an Indian novelist finding publication with an Australian publisher, this article shows how similar and different colonial dynamics of literary production both kept national contexts meaningful and undid them through transnational connections.' (Publication abstract)
1 [Review Essay] : Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance Paul Sharrad , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , December vol. 52 no. 5 2016; (p. 634-636)
'This essay collection covers film and prose narrative from diverse locations. The overall intent is to reassess the psychologizing of trauma (after Stef Craps) and extend its literary bounds beyond the Holocaust. Those chapters that engage with the key terms of trauma and the postcolonial and their critical archive are the most impressive. Lucy Brisley’s careful framing of her discussion of Assia Djebar’s fiction with a reworking via Derrida of the Freudian melancholia-mourning dichotomy according to contradictory functions of memory is a standout chapter.' (Publication abstract)
1 Letters to Who? On Michelle Cahill Paul Sharrad , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2016;

— Review of Letter to Pessoa Michelle Cahill , 2016 selected work short story
1 A National (Diasporic?) Living Treasure : Thomas Keneally Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 14 2015; (p. 20-27)
Although Thomas Keneally is firmly located as a national figure, his international literary career and his novels’ inspection of colonial exile, Aboriginal alienation, and movements of people throughout history reflect aspects of diasporic experience, while pushing the term itself into wider meaning of the transnational.
1 Doxos i "Your fiery insistence on retaining", Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: ‘Whaddaya Know?’ : Writings for Syd Harrex 2015; (p. 42)
1 Delhi i "Jantar Mantar's a sonnet in stone: a", Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: ‘Whaddaya Know?’ : Writings for Syd Harrex 2015; (p. 41)
1 A Sort of Sequence for Syd Paul Sharrad , 2015 sequence poetry
— Appears in: ‘Whaddaya Know?’ : Writings for Syd Harrex 2015; (p. 41-42)
1 New Literatures : Australia Michael R. Griffiths , Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work bibliography
— Appears in: The Year's Work in English Studies , vol. 94 no. 1 2015; (p. 1099-1233)

'Apart from a renewed interest in indigenous literature displayed across several volumes, topics this year ranged from an extensive survey of Christian mysticism to the life-writing of sons in relation to fathers...'

1 New Literatures 'Pioneer ' : Syd Harrex Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work obituary (for S. C. Harrex )
— Appears in: Asiatic , June vol. 9 no. 1 2015; (p. 13-14)
1 Just the Ticket : The Thomas Keneally Papers Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The National Library of Australia Magazine , March 2015; (p. 9-11)
1 Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012 Paul Sharrad (interviewer), 2015 single work interview
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 May vol. 30 no. 1 2015;
Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012.
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