Richard Flanagan

Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney and general editor of the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series. His previous books include Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time, and Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity.

‘Among the things we learn from the dozen scholarly essays that make up this monograph, remarkably the first extended study of Flanagan’s writing, is that the Tasmanian’s career has been built by reversing that current of indifference and oversight [of mainland Australians deleting Tasmania from the map].’

• The novels of Richard Flanagan: an introduction by Robert Dixon and Liliana Zavaglia1. Circles of violence: historical constellations in Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Robert Dixon2. Greening a narrative mode: antipodean magical realism and ecocriticism in Richard Flanagan’s fiction by Holgate3. ‘Smashing and singing and sobbing and howling’: sound and Richard Flanagan’s Tasmania byJoseph Cummins4. Spatial anxieties: tourists, settlers and Tasmania’s affective economies of belonging in A Terrible Beauty, Death of a River Guide and Gould’s Book of Fish by Laura A. White5. Rewriting history: Gould’s Book of Fish by Bill Ashcroft6. Richard Flanagan’s ‘post-post’ and the mapping of the altermodern by Salhia Ben-Messahel7. Contestations of authority: Richard Flanagan’s Australian biofictions by Marc Delrez8. The genealogy of wanting by Margaret Harris9. Terror, paranoia and manipulation: the politics of fear in The Unknown Terrorist by Nathanael O’Reilly10. Sydney, a city without love: the unknown terrorist in The Unknown Terrorist by Theodore F. Sheckels11. ‘Fireless flame gone amorous’: war amid love in The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthNicholas Birns12. ‘Out of the tear-drenched land’: transnational sites of memory in The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthLiliana ZavagliaContributorsIndex