Invitation to the Voyage: Reading Gail Jones' <i> Five Bells <i>

Authors

  • Robert Dixon University of Sydney

Keywords:

Gail Jones

Abstract

In this article, the first on Five Bells, I outline several contexts that will be foundational for subsequent readings of the novel. They include its relationship to Kenneth Slessor's poem; Jones' interest in the French Situationist International and their theories of urbanism and psychogeography; the influence of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, trauma studies and the trauma novel; and another cluster of themes associated with Pastnernak's Doctor Zhivago, World Literature, cosmopolitanism and global translatio.

Author Biography

Robert Dixon, University of Sydney

Robert Dixon is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney

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Published

2013-04-03