Tales of the Austral tropics / Ernest Favenc ; edited by Cheryl Taylor
- Bib ID:
- 3021434
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Favenc, Ernest, 1846-1908
- Description:
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- Sydney, Australia : UNSW Press ; Portland, OR : Available in North America through ISBS, 1997
- liv, 211 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0868403814
- Series:
- Colonial texts series (Kensington, N.S.W.) ; 5.
- Summary:
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Tales of the Austral Tropics is the first critical edition of stories by Ernest Favenc, which were first published in Sydney's Bulletin in the 1890s. Together with contributions by Henry Lawson, A. B. Paterson, Price Warung, Louis Becke and others, they played an essential part in the formation of Australia's national mythology. The stories were republished in volume form in both Sydney and London. Favenc's stories draw their vivid realism from the author's twenty years' experience as an explorer and rover in north Queensland. Some are romances of mateship and self-sacrifice, while others are comedies that celebrate ther virtuosity of bush tricksters. However, the most characteristic stories return to the theme of death in the desert, mangroves and caves. Their obsessive horror and ugliness are suggestive of tensions in the national identity, as it emerged in an alien environment, to confront many kinds of racial and cultural differences. In Tales of Austral Tropics Favenc's extensive revisions of the stories, as he reshaped them for different audiences, are included in full, together with the historical introduction that regathers for the modern reader the contexts in which the stories first appeared.
- Notes:
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- Stories originally published: The last of six. Sydney : Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1893; Tales of the Austral tropics. London : Osgood, McIlvaine, 1894.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "A bibliography of Favenc's writings": p. 163-182.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Taylor, Cheryl, 1945-
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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