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'Alex Miller, a two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, as written ten novels, all of them featuring protagonists who are outsiders, often in more ways than one. In most, if not all of them, Miller's narrators grapple with personal and societal questions of alienation. Miller's books offer sophisticated literary investigations into issues relating to the 'ownership' of place and landscape, the impossibility of an uncomplicated identity after migration, the role of history, and the nature of belonging and home. Critical reviews of his work have, over time, acknowledged this presence of migrant themes, but the connection between the migrancy of the writer and the content of his work has hardly ever been noted clearly. In fact, the Oxford Literary History of Australia categorises Miller, a little mystifyingly, as a 'non-migrant Australian writer' (Lever, 325). My argument here is that this is not just factually false, but that reading Miller's work as unproblematically Australian takes the sting out of what he is trying to say, and not just about the migrant experience but about Australia as well.' (Author's introduction 66)
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Alex Miller : Migrant Writer
Subjects:
- Living in a New Country : History, Travelling and Language 1992 single work criticism
- Postmodern Tensions : Reading for (Multi) Cultural Difference 1990 single work criticism
- Migrant Women Writers : Who's on Whose Margins? 1983 single work criticism
- Beyond the Echo : Migrant Writing and Australian Literature 1988 single work criticism
- A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers 1992 single work bibliography biography
- Fiction: Innovation and Ideology 1998 single work criticism
- The Postcolonial Exotic : Marketing the Margins 2001 multi chapter work
- Central Mischief : Elizabeth Jolley on Writing, Her Past and Herself 1992 selected work prose
- The Ancestor Game 1992 single work novel
- Lovesong 2009 single work novel
- This is How Its Going to be Then 1990 single work criticism
- The Tivington Nott 1989 single work novel
- Watching the Climbers on the Mountain 1988 single work novel
- An Author Arrives, with a Work of Love 1993 single work criticism biography
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