Promoting Postcolonial Australia

New Readings of Miles Franklin and Joseph Furphy

AvJohn Uhr,Lee Trepanier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Politics, Literature, & Film
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798765156193

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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.

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In this stimulating study of two once famous but now neglected Australian novelists – Joseph Furphy and Miles Franklin – John Uhr stakes their respective claims as creative postcolonial political thinkers, civic humanists and stoic cosmopolitans. More broadly, his book is an eloquent plea to take seriously the role of the novel in the study of political theory, and to treat the ideas of novelists as a fruitful source of ‘spiritual exercises’ in fostering civic virtue and renewing liberal democracy.

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List of FiguresPrefacePart OneIntroduction: Relating Franklin and Furphy1. Revising Postcolonial Literary TheoryPart Two2. Feminism in Franklin’s My Brilliant Career3. Socialism in Furphy’s Rigby’s Romance4. Elections in Franklin’s Some Everyday Folk and Dawn5. Truth-telling in Furphy’s The Buln-Buln and the Brolga6 Democracy in Franklin’s All That SwaggerPart Three7. Reframing Franklin’s Philosophical FurphyConclusion: Promoting PostcolonialismAbout the Author