TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarah Attfield
PY  - 2025
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781789977325
TI  - Class on Page and Stage
T2  - The Australian Working Class in Contemporary Literature and Theatre
DO  - 10.3726/b16482
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1319507
N2  - This book explores how working-class experience is represented in contemporary Australian literature and theatre and asks whether working-class stories continue to be underrepresented in the contemporary Australian literary scene. The book examines a wide range of examples from published Australian fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and theatre that has working-class content, and considers what kinds of representations are present in these works. Is the nuance of working-class life being included? Do the authors challenge stereotypes? What kinds of stories are privileged? Who is writing about working-class people? And what can we learn about working-class Australia from reading contemporary literature? The book also takes an intersectional approach and considers how contemporary Australian authors and playwrights such as Melissa Lucashenko, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Tony Birch and Alana Valentine show the intersections of class with race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
KW  - Working-Class Literature, Australian Literature, Working-Class Representation, Australian Working-Class Literature, Working-Class Fiction, Working-Class Non-Fiction, Working-Class Poetry, Working-Class Theatre
LA  - English
ER  -