TY - BOOK AU - Randall,Don TI - David Malouf T2 - Contemporary World Writers SN - 9781847791856 AV - PR9619 .D385 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Malouf, David, KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR FORWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; Contexts and intertexts; The poetry; The narratives of 'I'; Johnno; An Imaginary Life; Child's Play; 12 Edmondstone Street; Multiple worlds; Fly Away Peter; Harland's Half Acre; The Great World; Remembering Babylon; The Conversations at Curlow Creek; The short stories; Critical overview and conclusion; NOTES; SELECT BIBLOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; 2; b N2 - Don Randall?s comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author?s affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity of his ethical concerns: for Malouf, human lives find their value in transformations, specifically in instances of self-overcoming that encounters with difference or otherness provoke. However, the book is fully aware of, and informed by, the quite ample body of criticism on Malouf, and thus provides UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=514990&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -