{"title":"Series: Politics, Literature, \u0026 Film","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"promoting-postcolonial-australia-by-john-uhr-9798765156193","title":"Promoting Postcolonial Australia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePromoting Postcolonial Australia: New Readings of Miles Franklin and Joseph Furphy\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUhr examines three of Franklin’s novels: \u003cem\u003eMy Brilliant Career\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSome Everyday Folk and Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAll that Swagger.\u003c\/em\u003e He also surveys two of Furphy’s novels: \u003cem\u003eRigby’s Romance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Buln-Buln and the Brolga\u003c\/em\u003e, which were both written under Furphy’s pseudonym Tom Collins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932391719148,"sku":"9798765156193","price":220.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798765156193-promoting-postcolonial-australia.jpg?v=1783861676"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-politics-literature-film.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}