Promoting Postcolonial Australia
New Readings of Miles Franklin and Joseph Furphy
Will be published approx. on 9. July 2026
248 pages
979-8-7651-5621-6 (ISBN)
Description
Promoting Postcolonial Australia: New Readings of Miles Franklin and Joseph Furphy uses Australian literary practice as a case study in the emergence of modern democratic literary culture. John Uhr merges traditional political theory and contemporary literary theory in this political reinterpretation of novels by two classic Australian writers: the feminist Miles Franklin and civic republican Joseph Furphy. Examines three of Franklin's novels: My Brilliant Career, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, and All that Swagger. Surveys two of Furphy's novels: Rigby's Romance and The Buln-Buln and the Brolga, which were both written under Furphy's pseudonym Tom Collins. Despite their reputations as Australian nationalists, Uhr argues that Franklin and Furphy should be seen as pioneering examples of postcolonial literary theory as later devised by the late literary critic Edward Said, Said's framework is surprisingly relevant to writers like Franklin and Furphy who blend pre-modern or Stoic philosophy and post-liberal or communitarian perspectives in their critical portraits of the limits of conventional liberalism for emerging democracies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
5 b/w Figures
File size
135,27 MB
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-5621-6 (9798765156216)
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approx. 08/2026
Bloomsbury Academic
€99.50
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Persons
John Uhr is emeritus professor in politics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Born in Australia, John completed graduate studies in political science at the University of Toronto, Canada and has taught political theory and public policy at the Australian National University since 1990.
Content
List of Figures
Preface
Part One
Introduction: Relating Franklin and Furphy
1. Revising Postcolonial Literary Theory
Part Two
2. Feminism in Franklin's My Brilliant Career
3. Socialism in Furphy's Rigby's Romance
4. Elections in Franklin's Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
5. Truth-telling in Furphy's The Buln-Buln and the Brolga
6 Democracy in Franklin's All That Swagger
Part Three
7. Reframing Franklin's Philosophical Furphy
Conclusion: Promoting Postcolonialism
About the Author
Preface
Part One
Introduction: Relating Franklin and Furphy
1. Revising Postcolonial Literary Theory
Part Two
2. Feminism in Franklin's My Brilliant Career
3. Socialism in Furphy's Rigby's Romance
4. Elections in Franklin's Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
5. Truth-telling in Furphy's The Buln-Buln and the Brolga
6 Democracy in Franklin's All That Swagger
Part Three
7. Reframing Franklin's Philosophical Furphy
Conclusion: Promoting Postcolonialism
About the Author
