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In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character. (Source: Trove)
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The Postcolonial Turn and the Fantastic
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction 2017; (p. 71-95)'Doris Bachmann-Medick maintains that the period since the 1970s has seen a series of “cultural turns”, that is, theoretical and cultural reorientations, which have “shifted perspectives, introduced new focuses and, as a result, opened previously unexamined cross-disciplinary fields of inquiry” (1). One such turn is the constitution of the postcolonial theory of culture, which has “shed light on the power of hegemonic cultures to shape discourse while illuminating the increasingly autonomous self-representation of previously marginalized societies, ethnic groups and literatures” (Bachmann-Medick 132).' (Introduction)
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Southeast Asian Australian Women’s Fiction and the Globalization of “Magic”
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 50 no. 6 2014; (p. 675-687) 'This article discusses the evolution of magical realism in relation to the postcolonial by looking at three contemporary Australian women authors originating from Southeast Asia. Besides extending magical realism to the Australian and Southeast Asian regions, these authors show the contours of the literary mode to be flexible, as magical realism has moved from being a localized Latin American trend to assuming a significant status on the international market. Concomitantly, their fiction develops various forms of a postcolonial aesthetics of “home” – forms that are neither pure nor authentic, but always-already partial and complicit with orientalist practices, in particular in light of new fault lines opened up in the wake of decolonization. This is one reason why their fiction embraces magical realist modes of representation: as an ambivalent literary mode, straddling the “actual” and the “imaginary”, and situated in-between resistance to, and collaboration with, Eurocentric modes of representation, magical realism retains a strong political relevance in a globalized, postcolonial era.' (Publication abstract) -
On the Genealogy of Democracy : Reading Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America
2012
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 68-80) -
Little White Lies : The Everyday Decptions that Bring Us Undone
2011
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column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 June 2011; (p. 12-14) 'From the well-intentioned falsehood to the baldfaced whopper, untruths find their way into every conversation. Social bonds are sealed on insincerity and punishments avoided in the blink of an eye. But as we stray from the path of absolute honesty, do our little white lies make frauds of us all.' Source: Andrew Stephens. -
Revisiting Australia : Historical Fabrications, Telling Histories/Stories and Other Colonial Delusions in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 219-236)
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[Review] Jack Maggs
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , April no. 14 2003;
— Review of Jack Maggs 1997 single work novel ; The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 1994 single work novel ; Oscar and Lucinda 1988 single work novel ; Illywhacker 1985 single work novel ; The Tax Inspector 1991 single work novel ; Collected Stories 1994 selected work short story -
[Review] Palomino [et al]
1985
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review
— Appears in: London Magazine , vol. 25 no. 1-2 1985; (p. 148-152)
— Review of Palomino 1980 single work novel ; The Doubleman 1985 single work novel ; Illywhacker 1985 single work novel -
A Dealer in Dreams, Visions, Images and Lies
1985
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 July 1985; (p. 13)
— Review of Illywhacker 1985 single work novel -
Illywhacker : A Great Short Story Trapped in a Fat Novel
1985
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 July 1985; (p. 47)
— Review of Illywhacker 1985 single work novel -
Peter Carey's "Illywhacker"?
1985
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review
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 29 no. 12 1985; (p. 86-87)
— Review of Illywhacker 1985 single work novel -
Ahasverus on the Walkabout : The Motif of the Wandering Jew in Contemporary Australian Fiction
2002
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criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 11-16) -
Parodying the Picaresque in Peter Carey's Illywhacker
1995-1996
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criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 7 no. 1 1995-1996; (p. 113-116) -
'Reading the 'Remembered World' : Carceral Architecture and Cultural Mnemonics in Peter Carey's Illywhacker
2002
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criticism
— Appears in: Mosaic , December vol. 35 no. 4 2002; (p. 17-34) Author's abstract: This essay explores linkages between architecture and memory in the context of Australia's penal-colonial past and postcolonial present. Examining how built spaces 'house' the past, the essay reads the carceral architecture in Peter Carey's Illywhacker as a counter-memory, a haunting reminder that the edifice of Australia has been built on (cryptic) lies - y Geschichte erzahlen: Untersuchungen zur Behandlung von Geschichte und nationaler Identitat in australischer Gegenwartsliteratur Munster : Lit Verlag , 2003 Z1172475 2003 single work criticism
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Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture : Peter Carey's Mythistorical Novels
2005
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criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 33-51)
Awards
- 1986 winner Ditmar Awards — Best Australian Long Fiction
- 1986 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- 1985 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Book of the Year
- 1985 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Imaginative Writing Prize
- 1985 joint winner The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — Barbara Ramsden Award
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Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1900-1999
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