Listening to the Imagined Sound of Contemporary Australian Literature

Authors

  • Joseph Cummins Independent Scholar

Abstract

This Early Career Researcher keynote address examines three contemporary Australian books, Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006), Christos Tsiolkas's Barracuda (2013) and Alex Miller's Max (2020). The methodology of listening to 'imagine sound' is used to think through the Australian histories, spaces and identities that we see and hear in the books. 

Author Biography

  • Joseph Cummins, Independent Scholar

    Joseph Cummins has a PhD in literary studies and music from the University of New South Wales. In 2019 he published two books, The Imagined Sound of Australian Literature and Music (Anthem) – for which he was nominated for the Walter McRae Russell Award, and, with Dr Ashley Barnwell, Reckoning with the Past: Family History and in Postcolonial Australian Literature (Routledge). He was reviews editor and co-editor of JASAL.

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2022-12-21

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How to Cite

Listening to the Imagined Sound of Contemporary Australian Literature. (2022). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 22(2). https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/17096