Abstract
This article highlights the original contribution of Australian-born novelist Peter Carey to the debate over historical fiction, with particular emphasis on Parrot and Olivier in America. Through a picaresque retelling of the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville’s early life and journey to America, the narrative subtends the questioning of historiography as both an objective report of events and a set of prearranged metaphors borrowed from literary rhetoric, in favour of an ironic re-enactment of the past.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 199-219 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Southerly |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Carey Peter
- Australian Literature
- Tocqueville Alexis de