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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6916
dc.title	Decolonising the Mind of the Antipodean Author: Gothic Tropes and Postcolonial Discourse in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake
dc.contributor.author	Tosi Valerie
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2021/1/decolonising-the-mind-of-the-antipodean-author-got/
dc.description.abstract	This article analyses Peter Carey’s novel My Life as a Fake (2003) through the lens of genre fiction, focusing on how the Gothic mode combines with key concepts in postcolonial studies. Intertextual references to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and analogies with Stephen King’s The Dark Half (1990) and “The Importance of Being Bachman” (1996) are investigated to contextualise Carey’s postcolonial Gothic. Furthermore, taking a cue from Frantz Fanon and Oswaldo de Andrade’s theoretical studies, I argue that the main characters of this novel display attitudes that allegorically reflect the stages through which the national literature of a former settler colony is shaped.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 23 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2021-10-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-15
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2021/23/023
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Australia
dc.subject	Australia
dc.subject	Cultural cannibalism
dc.subject	Cultural cannibalism
dc.subject	Decolonisation
dc.subject	Decolonisation
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Peter Carey
dc.subject	Peter Carey
dc.subject	Postcolonial Gothic
dc.subject	Postcolonial Gothic

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Decolonising the Mind of the Antipodean Author: Gothic Tropes and Postcolonial Discourse in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake

Valerie Tosi Università di Pisa, Italia

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This article analyses Peter Carey’s novel My Life as a Fake (2003) through the lens of genre fiction, focusing on how the Gothic mode combines with key concepts in postcolonial studies. Intertextual references to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and analogies with Stephen King’s The Dark Half (1990) and “The Importance of Being Bachman” (1996) are investigated to contextualise Carey’s postcolonial Gothic. Furthermore, taking a cue from Frantz Fanon and Oswaldo de Andrade’s theoretical studies, I argue that the main characters of this novel display attitudes that allegorically reflect the stages through which the national literature of a former settler colony is shaped.

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Dec. 20, 2021

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Oct. 7, 2021

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July 15, 2021

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Keywords: Peter Carey • Decolonisation • Intertextuality • Postcolonial Gothic • Australia • Cultural cannibalism

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