Paul Sharrad
Biographic Data
| ID | 90764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Sharrad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharrad |
| SIGNATURE | SHARRAD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8459-2303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Narrating Pakistan: An anthology of contemporary creative writing
Transnational Spaces of India and Australia
Transnational Spaces of India and Australia
The art in fiction: Thomas Keneally
The article picks up references to novelist Thomas Keneally’s interest in painting and tracks his uses of artists and painting in selected fiction. Visual art supplies style and thematic depth to Bring Larks and Heroes, is integral to the complexity underpinning the murder-mystery of A Victim of the Aurora, allows narrative perspective and structural coherence in Confederates, and connects with elements in The Daughters of Mars that echo the nove…
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
This book explores the history of English-language prose fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950, focusing not only on the ‘literary’ novel, but also on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. After World War II, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Z…
Canada
This chapter examines the history of the English-language novel in Canada since 1950. It first considers how the promotion of Canadian cultural identity and attempts to articulate a distinctly Canadian social ethos became increasingly mobilized in the decades following World War II. It then discusses the newfound optimism about the future of Canadian literature and culture that flourished following the Massey Commission initiatives, as well as Ca…
Reading across worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference
Reading across worlds: transnational book groups and the reception of difference." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(6), pp. 750–751
Postcolonial traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance
Postcolonial traumas: memory, narrative, resistance." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(5), pp. 635–636
Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012
I met Tom in his favourite café in Manly. Our conversation was punctuated by effusive greetings to and from passers by, with chat about the last bookshop talk and the fortunes of the local rugby league team. Afterwards, we visited his new apartment on the grounds of the Catholic seminary he had left fifty years before, and walked through the old cemetery near Sydneyâ s quarantine station, where Tom regaled me with the stories of some of the peopl…
Back to Whitton Week: Tracking Tom Keneally's Career
So at fifty years, what can we say? An easy conclusion would be that Keneally is best understood (as he himself has suggested from time to time) as a good craftsman of readable stories that raise serious issues, a writer better suited to the literary mass-market found in north America than to the more anxious and divided cultural space of literary Australia. But that fails at some point to do justice to the authorâ s capacity to write an experime…
The postcolonial historical novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts
In a cumulative discipline such as literary studies, how much can we take it for granted that the desirable attention to the latest research publications will bring with it an adequate sense of ant
"Diasporas, cultures of mobilities, "race
Only connect
The lion, the tiger and the kangaroo: A tale of transnational networks
Commonwealth literary studies functioned for some time as comparative work across discrete national literary cultures. Using the curious instance of an Indian novelist finding publication with an Australian publisher, this article shows how similar and different colonial dynamics of literary production both kept national contexts meaningful and undid them through transnational connections
Desirable or Dysfunctional? Family in Recent Indian English-Language Fiction
Contemporary Indian English-language fiction marks both a continuous focus on the Indian family as central to society, and also a break from the traditional socialisations of family life. Shifting away from the former calls for reform of marital conventions to accommodate individual needs and many recent novels show families to be dysfunctional sites of domestic violence, incest, extramarital affairs and divorce. Moreover, under the impact of bet…
Words, Sticks and Stones: Keneally, Literature and Social Impact
In Australia, Tom Keneally is one writer who may be said to have had a distinct social impact. He has inspired white Australians to reimagine the nation's convict heritage with Bring Larks and Heroes (1967), has inserted Irish Catholicism into the national cultural landscape in plays, film, fiction and The Great Shame (1998), a history of the Irish diaspora
Postliberalization Indian novels in English
by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, South Asian Studies, London and New York, Anthem, 2013, xxi + 228 pp., £60.00/$99.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 8572 8564 5 The idea for this book is a good one: what happens
Crosstalk: Canadian and global imaginaries in dialogue
Postcolonial ecologies: Literatures of the environment
edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2011, 348 pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 19 53 9443 6 The focus of postcolonial studies has
Beyond Capricornia: Ambiguous Promise in Alexis Wright
The article discusses the polarised response to Wrightâ s work. The author argues that it is Wrightâ s â blend of realism and the visionary that marks the ambiguity and the promise of her creative workâ (60)
Estranging an Icon: Eucalyptus and India
In its broadest context, this paper inspects historical connections between Australia and India under colonialism. It works with the general idea that the heavily textual /literary emphasis of postcolonial studies to date is usefully informed by paying attention to material culture and historical movements. Australian literature is read against/through work on ethnobotany, forest management and anthropology. Murray Bail's novel Eucalyptus suggest…
Following the Map: A Postcolonial Unpacking of a Kashmir Shawl
This article traces the stories in and around one of four Srinagar “map shawls” (c. 1870), bringing postcolonial discourse analysis to bear on reading its changing and contending meanings. Its technical brilliance sits amongst changes in shawl production as a result of East-West trade, particularly during the nineteenth century. The shawl's meanings draw upon courtly dress and gift exchange, the social functions of cartography, local traditions o…
Albert Wendt and the Problem of History
Poet and fiction writer Albert Wendt has taken on the task of correcting colonialist representations of the Pacific from an insider perspective. This involves him in questions of historical record and modes of recording history. The role of memory becomes central to the artist transposing oral traditions into written forms. Trained as an historian, Wendt progressively blurs the boundaries between imaginative and factual, personal and public re/co…
Out of Africa: Literary Globalization in the Winds of Change
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
Struggle and strategy: Literature and New Zealand's land wars
(1997). Struggle and strategy: Literature and New Zealand's land wars. Wasafiri: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 11-18
Postcolonial ecologies: Literatures of the environment
edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2011, 348 pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 19 53 9443 6 The focus of postcolonial studies has
Postcolonial traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance
Postcolonial traumas: memory, narrative, resistance." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(5), pp. 635–636
Albert Wendt and the Problem of History
Poet and fiction writer Albert Wendt has taken on the task of correcting colonialist representations of the Pacific from an insider perspective. This involves him in questions of historical record and modes of recording history. The role of memory becomes central to the artist transposing oral traditions into written forms. Trained as an historian, Wendt progressively blurs the boundaries between imaginative and factual, personal and public re/co…
Crosstalk: Canadian and global imaginaries in dialogue
The Art of Memory and the Liberation of History: Wilson Harris's Witnessing of Time
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 1995
The postcolonial historical novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts
In a cumulative discipline such as literary studies, how much can we take it for granted that the desirable attention to the latest research publications will bring with it an adequate sense of ant
"Diasporas, cultures of mobilities, "race
Memory, childhood and exile: Self‐representation in post‐colonial writing
This paper takes up the concept of memory that is a capacity basic to human selfhood, and seeks to describe a common attitude to narration in writers in English from countries that have liberated themselves from a colonial past. The author maintains that memory is a central element in post‐colonial narrative, and shows how it is associated with two important domains of cognition and imagination—recall of childhood and awareness of exile. Examinin…
The Art of Memory and the Liberation of History: Wilson Harris's Witnessing of Time
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 1995
Making Beginnings: Johnny Frisbie and Pacific Literature
the American civil rights movement. Frequently quoted examples from Papua New Guinea are Vincent Eri's novel The Crocodile (1970) and the long poem Reluctant Flame by John Kasaipwalova (1971).' There was, however, a longer tradition of literacy among the earlier colonized regions of Polynesia. In Tahiti, the language was transcribed and used on royal and missionary printing presses from 1817.2 Tongans were reading statutes, bibles, textbooks, and…
Struggle and strategy: Literature and New Zealand's land wars
(1997). Struggle and strategy: Literature and New Zealand's land wars. Wasafiri: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 11-18
Out of Africa: Literary Globalization in the Winds of Change
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
Albert Wendt and the Problem of History
Poet and fiction writer Albert Wendt has taken on the task of correcting colonialist representations of the Pacific from an insider perspective. This involves him in questions of historical record and modes of recording history. The role of memory becomes central to the artist transposing oral traditions into written forms. Trained as an historian, Wendt progressively blurs the boundaries between imaginative and factual, personal and public re/co…
Following the Map: A Postcolonial Unpacking of a Kashmir Shawl
This article traces the stories in and around one of four Srinagar “map shawls” (c. 1870), bringing postcolonial discourse analysis to bear on reading its changing and contending meanings. Its technical brilliance sits amongst changes in shawl production as a result of East-West trade, particularly during the nineteenth century. The shawl's meanings draw upon courtly dress and gift exchange, the social functions of cartography, local traditions o…
Estranging an Icon: Eucalyptus and India
In its broadest context, this paper inspects historical connections between Australia and India under colonialism. It works with the general idea that the heavily textual /literary emphasis of postcolonial studies to date is usefully informed by paying attention to material culture and historical movements. Australian literature is read against/through work on ethnobotany, forest management and anthropology. Murray Bail's novel Eucalyptus suggest…
Beyond Capricornia: Ambiguous Promise in Alexis Wright
The article discusses the polarised response to Wrightâ s work. The author argues that it is Wrightâ s â blend of realism and the visionary that marks the ambiguity and the promise of her creative workâ (60)
Postcolonial ecologies: Literatures of the environment
edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2011, 348 pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 19 53 9443 6 The focus of postcolonial studies has
Desirable or Dysfunctional? Family in Recent Indian English-Language Fiction
Contemporary Indian English-language fiction marks both a continuous focus on the Indian family as central to society, and also a break from the traditional socialisations of family life. Shifting away from the former calls for reform of marital conventions to accommodate individual needs and many recent novels show families to be dysfunctional sites of domestic violence, incest, extramarital affairs and divorce. Moreover, under the impact of bet…
Words, Sticks and Stones: Keneally, Literature and Social Impact
In Australia, Tom Keneally is one writer who may be said to have had a distinct social impact. He has inspired white Australians to reimagine the nation's convict heritage with Bring Larks and Heroes (1967), has inserted Irish Catholicism into the national cultural landscape in plays, film, fiction and The Great Shame (1998), a history of the Irish diaspora
Postliberalization Indian novels in English
by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, South Asian Studies, London and New York, Anthem, 2013, xxi + 228 pp., £60.00/$99.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 8572 8564 5 The idea for this book is a good one: what happens
Crosstalk: Canadian and global imaginaries in dialogue
The lion, the tiger and the kangaroo: A tale of transnational networks
Commonwealth literary studies functioned for some time as comparative work across discrete national literary cultures. Using the curious instance of an Indian novelist finding publication with an Australian publisher, this article shows how similar and different colonial dynamics of literary production both kept national contexts meaningful and undid them through transnational connections
Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012
I met Tom in his favourite café in Manly. Our conversation was punctuated by effusive greetings to and from passers by, with chat about the last bookshop talk and the fortunes of the local rugby league team. Afterwards, we visited his new apartment on the grounds of the Catholic seminary he had left fifty years before, and walked through the old cemetery near Sydneyâ s quarantine station, where Tom regaled me with the stories of some of the peopl…
Back to Whitton Week: Tracking Tom Keneally's Career
So at fifty years, what can we say? An easy conclusion would be that Keneally is best understood (as he himself has suggested from time to time) as a good craftsman of readable stories that raise serious issues, a writer better suited to the literary mass-market found in north America than to the more anxious and divided cultural space of literary Australia. But that fails at some point to do justice to the authorâ s capacity to write an experime…
The postcolonial historical novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts
In a cumulative discipline such as literary studies, how much can we take it for granted that the desirable attention to the latest research publications will bring with it an adequate sense of ant
"Diasporas, cultures of mobilities, "race
Only connect
Postcolonial traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance
Postcolonial traumas: memory, narrative, resistance." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(5), pp. 635–636
Reading across worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference
Reading across worlds: transnational book groups and the reception of difference." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(6), pp. 750–751
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
This book explores the history of English-language prose fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950, focusing not only on the ‘literary’ novel, but also on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. After World War II, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Z…
Canada
This chapter examines the history of the English-language novel in Canada since 1950. It first considers how the promotion of Canadian cultural identity and attempts to articulate a distinctly Canadian social ethos became increasingly mobilized in the decades following World War II. It then discusses the newfound optimism about the future of Canadian literature and culture that flourished following the Massey Commission initiatives, as well as Ca…
The art in fiction: Thomas Keneally
The article picks up references to novelist Thomas Keneally’s interest in painting and tracks his uses of artists and painting in selected fiction. Visual art supplies style and thematic depth to Bring Larks and Heroes, is integral to the complexity underpinning the murder-mystery of A Victim of the Aurora, allows narrative perspective and structural coherence in Confederates, and connects with elements in The Daughters of Mars that echo the nove…
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