TY - BOOK ID - 77894356 TI - David Malouf PY - 2007 SN - 1781701148 1847791859 9781847791856 9781781701140 0719068320 9780719068324 9780719068324 0719068320 0719068339 9780719068331 1847796036 9781847796035 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - Malouf, David, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Australian literature. KW - David Malouf. KW - encounters with difference. KW - ethical concerns. KW - international writing. KW - otherness. KW - postcolonial writing. KW - self-overcoming. KW - transformations. KW - unity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894356 AB - Don Randall's comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity of his ethical concerns: for Malouf, human lives find their value in transformations, specifically in instances of self-overcoming that encounters with difference or otherness provoke. However, the book is fully aware of, and informed by, the quite ample body of criticism on Malouf, and thus provides ER -