Peter Carey (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The postcolonial search for national identity dominates Peter Carey’s fiction. An Australian by birth, Carey moved to New York in the late 1980’s, but he continued to address the concerns that have characterized his work from the outset: Australian national consciousness (or that of any postcolonial country), the inherited burden of colonialism, history’s lies, and a fascination with the center—that is, New York or London. To enlarge on these themes, Carey has experimented radically in fictional forms.
Born in a country town—Bacchus Marsh, Victoria—Carey grew up in a...
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