The Adman Who Wanted to Compile a Cultural Heritage: Peter Carey’s Bliss
Bliss, Peter Carey’s first published novel, is the manifesto of a postcolonial writer who believes it necessary to constitute a new cultural heritage both to cure the postcolonial society of its cultural inferiority complex and to protect the new community against neo-imperialism. It is also Carey’s...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | Bliss, Peter Carey’s first published novel, is the manifesto of a postcolonial writer who believes it necessary to constitute a new cultural heritage both to cure the postcolonial society of its cultural inferiority complex and to protect the new community against neo-imperialism. It is also Carey’s ars poetica, which sets out how he will go about constructing an Australian literary heritage in his coming novels. |
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