Jane Gleeson-White
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Australian Classics: 50 Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works (2007) — Herausgeber — 51 Exemplare
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- Gleeson-White, Jane
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- 1965
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- Australia
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- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- University of New South Wales
University of Sydney (BA (Hons) and BEc) - Berufe
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- Jane Gleeson-White is a writer with degrees in economics and literature. Jane was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice and worked in publishing in Australia and the UK for 15 years. She has edited fiction and non-fiction including Christos Tsiolkas’s internationally acclaimed prize-winning The Slap and Dead Europe, Luke Davies’ cult bestseller Candy and Meg Stewart’s prize-winning Far From a Still Life: Margaret Olley. From 2010 to 2012 Jane was the fiction editor of Overland magazine.
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Some other volumes on this subject get it ever so slightly wrong; Gleeson-White rises above them in that regard. First of all, her love of Australian history is evident - what other book recommends Christopher Brennan and John Shaw Neilsen and Lesbia Harford and Banjo?
Second, she avoids politics; indeed one cannot tell her politics at the end of the book more than one could at the beginning, and what a relief! While I enjoyed Carl Reinecke's recent [b:Books That Made Us: The Companion to the ABC TV Series|59145276|Books That Made Us The Companion to the ABC TV Series|Carl Reinecke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1633492204l/59145276._SY75_.jpg|93269646], it was exhausting to constantly be told that every book written before the year 2000 was imperialist, racist, sexist, and so on, with little context or, god forbid, recommendation. People who read aren't fools, and Gleeson-White clearly appreciates that readers can do that legwork for themselves, can interrogate a text sensibly to separate the historical context from the core, and decide for themselves if it remains relevant. She's here to present the writers and their texts, explaining why each work is celebrated and what remains of worth. She's not insensitive to Australia's history of injustice, and chronicles works by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Eve Langley' s The Pea Pickers, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia and Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore alongside other works that engaged with this injustice contemporarily. But that's not the core point, nor should it be.
Third and finally, I think this is the only book of its type that avoids the age-old trap of immediacy. That's not a judgement on the others, including my beloved [a:Geoffrey Dutton|329598|Geoffrey Dutton|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], but there is always that final section of "books from the last 20 years" which bewilders people who discover the book a generation later. Inevitably some of the highlights are missing while some of the texts chosen have vanished so thoroughly into the abyss. Instead, this work (published in the late 2000s) stops at Tim Winton's 1991 novel Cloudstreet, that rare book that is unanimously deemed a classic, but also symbolically the end of an era, a novel that seemed so modern and all-encompassing in 1991 but also (from this vantage point) has a 20th century viewpoint to how it approaches race, gender, ability, and so on. It will be for future volumes to determine what the classics are from more recent years - and it will be for all readers to decide which of the classics herein remain, for them, stories that speak of, and to, Australia.
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