Australia and Galicia in Transnational Narratives

Authors

  • María Jesús Lorenzo Modia University of Corunna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/co20172265-83

Keywords:

Australia, Galicia, Robert Graves, James McAuley, Félix Calvino, transnational fiction, diasporas.

Abstract

This article analyzes the transnational features of narratives between Galicia and Australia from the year 1519 to the Present-day. Sailors like Pedro Fernandez de Quiros and Luis Váez de Torres, who reached Australia in the sixteenth century, will be considered as the starting point of a cultural dialogue still going on in today’s literature not only as regards the geography of the continent but also in the collective imagination of the country. Other connections between these countries are also established by contemporary novelists such as Peter Carey, Sally Morgan and Murray Bail, who use Galician history and places, filtered through British sources, to address Australia and its present-day characters and decolonizing conflicts. Finally, the works of other authors such as Robert Graves and Félix Calvino, who also deal with this literary dialogue in their fiction, are explored.

Author Biography

María Jesús Lorenzo Modia, University of Corunna

María Jesús Lorenzo Modia is Full Professor of English Literature in the University of Corunna (Spain), and Dean of the Faculty of Philology. Her main scholarly interests are modern and contemporary literature and culture, women writers, translation, and cultural relationships between Spain and the Anglo-Saxon world. She is currently doing research in contemporary literatures in English.

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Published

2017-04-26