Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey’s literary career from his emergence in the Australian literary scene as a contributor to local literary magazines to when he published his fiction exclusively with large conglomerate publishers. As Australia’s most decorated author for a period nearing half a century, Carey’s career gives unparalleled insights into the global contemporary publishing and the making of global literary prestige from the periphery, and significant cultural currency for Australian literature and culture worldwide. Carey’s fiction is not only a product of the global dynamic in literary publishing of the last quarter of the twentieth century, but also it holds something of its productive tension for Australian writing and writers. Allahyari retraces the fraught synthesis of an individual literary proclivity with a growing commercial cultural appetite: the coincidence of Carey’s career with the conglomeration of global publishing pushed further towards anti-elitist, popular aesthetics.
Author(s): Keyvan Allahyari
Series: New Directions in Book History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 224
City: Cham
Acknowledgement
Contents
Chapter 1: At the Literary Dinner: An Introduction
Feeling the Archive
Periodicity and Structure
Chapter 2: The Novelist, Australia, World
Carey’s Globe
Critics and Carey
Chapter 3: Into the Marketplace
The UQP Story
A Commonwealth: Literature Board, 1973
A New World Order: Collapse of the Traditional Markets Agreement
Literary Magazines and Counter-culture Publishing
The Global Economics of Literary Success
Chapter 4: The New Creative Economy
Prizing the Celebrity
The Corporate Creative Economy and Literary Festivals
The Making of a Literary Taste
Celebrity Author in the Marketplace
Fiction as a World
Australian Literature as World Literature
The Birth of the Australian Novel
Chapter 5: The Archive and the Canon
Paper Money
The Archive and the Body
Canon from Below
Archive Is a Literary Genre
Consecrating Carey
Chapter 6: Local Publisher, Global Agent
The Publisher, the Editor, the Author
Enter the Literary Agent
The Globalised Marketplace and the New Publishing Imaginary
Structural Inequality in a Globalised Competition
The Literary Economy of a Late Style
Australian Author in the Age of Corporatocracy
Literature of Profit, or the End of Resistance?
Chapter 7: Coda: What’s (Not) in a Name?
Works Cited
Index
