Australian writer Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, among which Birds of Passage (1989), After China (1992), The Garden Book (2005) and The Bath Fugues (2009) – the four works at the core of the present study. Owing to his Chinese origins and his elaborate style, literary criticism in Australia has labelled him an ethnic writer whose novels are deemed overly – and overtly – complex and opaque.Our thesis aims at establishing why Castro’s works, precisely because of their sophistication, deserve an alternate approach. We start with a historical survey of Australia’s “national” and “multicultural” literature. This will bring to light how Castro, being well aware of his nation’s love for social, cultural and literary categorizations, st...
This essay looks at the significance of the semblable, the figure of the double or likeness, which B...
Brian Castro’s Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria is a verse novel published in 2017 and the unlik...
This thesis considers the cultural transactions that occur in Robert Hans van Gulik\u27s Judge Dee s...
Australian writer Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, among which Birds of Passage (1989), Aft...
Australian writer Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, among which Birds of Passage (1989), Aft...
Brian Castro, écrivain australien contemporain d’origine chinoise, auteur de dix romans, a été souve...
International audienceThis article aims to question the complex interaction between aesthetics and i...
International audienceThis article aims to question the complex interaction between aesthetics and i...
The Garden Book, a novel set in the Dandenongs between the 1920s and 1940s, tells of a love affair b...
This thesis studies the two protagonists in Birds of Passage: Lo Yunshan and Seamus O’Young, analyzi...
© 2010 Dr. Marilyne BrunThis thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary...
This paper focuses on the fourth novel of contemporary Australian writer Brian Castro, After China (...
This paper focuses on the fourth novel of contemporary Australian writer Brian Castro, After China (...
International audienceCommitment is a challenging notion that cannot be overlooked in Australian lit...
A reading of Brian Castro's novels, Birds of Passage and After China in the context of Asian/Austral...
This essay looks at the significance of the semblable, the figure of the double or likeness, which B...
Brian Castro’s Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria is a verse novel published in 2017 and the unlik...
This thesis considers the cultural transactions that occur in Robert Hans van Gulik\u27s Judge Dee s...
Australian writer Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, among which Birds of Passage (1989), Aft...
Australian writer Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, among which Birds of Passage (1989), Aft...
Brian Castro, écrivain australien contemporain d’origine chinoise, auteur de dix romans, a été souve...
International audienceThis article aims to question the complex interaction between aesthetics and i...
International audienceThis article aims to question the complex interaction between aesthetics and i...
The Garden Book, a novel set in the Dandenongs between the 1920s and 1940s, tells of a love affair b...
This thesis studies the two protagonists in Birds of Passage: Lo Yunshan and Seamus O’Young, analyzi...
© 2010 Dr. Marilyne BrunThis thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary...
This paper focuses on the fourth novel of contemporary Australian writer Brian Castro, After China (...
This paper focuses on the fourth novel of contemporary Australian writer Brian Castro, After China (...
International audienceCommitment is a challenging notion that cannot be overlooked in Australian lit...
A reading of Brian Castro's novels, Birds of Passage and After China in the context of Asian/Austral...
This essay looks at the significance of the semblable, the figure of the double or likeness, which B...
Brian Castro’s Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria is a verse novel published in 2017 and the unlik...
This thesis considers the cultural transactions that occur in Robert Hans van Gulik\u27s Judge Dee s...