Andreas Gaile presents his Rewriting History as Peter Carey’s biography of Australia. Before he gives us the facts of that biography, however, he suggests why Carey cannot write a biography of Australia: ‘there is no “real” Australia waiting to be uncovered. A national identity is an invention.’ He elaborates this by a series of excursions into postmodernist theories of narration and dis ... (read more)
Joseph Wiesenfarth
Joseph Wiesenfarth is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written extensively on the English novel and has contributed to the Australian War Memorial’s Stella Bowen: Art, Love & War (2002). His most recent monograph is Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women: Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, and Janice Biala (2005), and his most recent book is a critical edition of No More Parades (2011), the second volume of Carcanet’s new corrected and annotated edition of Ford’s tetralogy Parade’s End.