Adventures in Malley country: concerning Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake [2002.]

Chambers gives a critical supplementation of Peter Carey's queer bachelor universe in his novel My Life as a Fake. The significance of Carey's contribution lies in his having retrospectively identified, at the heart of Western reflections on having to attach oneself to the thematics of art...

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Published inCultural studies review Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 27 - 51
Main Author Chambers, Ross
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Carleton Melbourne University Publishing 01.03.2005
Subjects
Artificial life
Australian fiction
Australian literature
Authors
British & Irish literature
Carey, Peter
English literature
Literary criticism
Males
Poiesis
Pseudophobia
Self image
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Single persons
Social life & customs
Stereotypes
New York
United States > US
Chicago Illinois
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Summary:Chambers gives a critical supplementation of Peter Carey's queer bachelor universe in his novel My Life as a Fake. The significance of Carey's contribution lies in his having retrospectively identified, at the heart of Western reflections on having to attach oneself to the thematics of artifice and artificial life, a concern with language and in particular a problematics of poiesis. She adds that for where the strangeness of artificial life is a function of what she calls the phenomenon of singularity--that is, of its apparent transgression of conventional and therefore socially acceptable understandings and expectations--its wickedness is regularly conceptualized in terms of the problem that is at the heart of all sociality: that of relationality.
Bibliography:Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, Mar 2005: 27-51
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ISSN:1446-8123
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