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Authors: CLAUDIA NOVOSIVSCHEI.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.1.07
Published Online: 2017-03-24
Published Print: 2017-03-31
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America Is a Democracy, whereas Australia Stayed a Bureaucracy. Peter Carey is one of those authors who, through almost their entire body of fictional works, deal with politics, search for the political, examine how it permeates all layers of one’s life, irrespective whether one is better or lower positioned in society. The more so this happens in Parrot and Olivier in America (2009), a novel in which his two main characters swing between the Old and the New Worlds, between political systems in the making. The twenty-first century reader is thus forced to question what has been made and what they are currently living in.
Keywords: Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America, Europe, France, French Revolution, America, Australia, political systems, democracy, bureaucracy, penal colony, Alexis de Tocqueville, narrative voices.
WORKS CITED
Books
Carey, Peter. Parrot and Olivier in America. 2009. Faber and Faber Limited paperback edition, 2011.
Byatt, Antonia S. On Histories and Stories. Selected Essays. Harvard University Press, 2000. PDF file.
Woodcock, Bruce. Peter Carey. Contemporary World Writers. University Press, 2003. Print.
Gaile, Andreas. “‘The “contrarian streak’: An Interview with Peter Carey.” Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey. Edited by Andreas Gaile, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 3-16. Print.
Articles
Barsanti, Chris. “Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey.” Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 86, no. 3, Summer 2010, pp. 193-193. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec. 2016.
Bliss, Carolyn. “Peter Carey. Parrot and Olivier in America.” World Literature in Review. July-Aug. 2010, pp. 58-60. Academic Search Complete. Web. Accessed 20 Dec. 2016.
Carey, Peter. “PETER CAREY in conversation with Edmund White and Claire Messud.” LIVE from the NYPL, 20 Apr. 2010, https://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/peter-carey-conversation-edmund-white-and-claire-messud. Accessed 20 Dec. 2016.
Domestico, Anthony. “On the Road.” Commonwealth, vol. 137, issue 9, 7 May 2010, pp. 36-37. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec. 2016.
Luck, Geoffrey. “Peter Carey’s Bootleg Tocqueville.” Quadrant Magazine, vol. 54, issue 11, Nov 2010, pp.17-23. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec. 2016.
Robson, Leo. “Baggy wowsers. Parrot and Olivier in America. Peter Carey.” New Statesman, vol. 139, issue 4989, 22 Feb. 2010, pp. 47-48. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec 2016.
Seaman, Donna. “Parrot and Olivier in America. By Peter Carey.” Booklist, vol. 139, issue 4989, 1 Nov. 2009, pp. 47-48. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec 2016.
Wood, James. “Tocqueville in America.” New Yorker, vol. 86, issue 13, 17 May 2010, pp.104-109. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec 2016.
Wood, Michael. “The Victorious Servant.” New York Review of Books, vol. 57, issue 12, 15 July 2010, pp.38-39. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec 2016.
Zipp, Yvonne. “Parrot and Olivier in America.” Christian Science Monitor, 08827729, 12 May 2010. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 20 Dec 2016.
Websites
Peter Carey official website. petercareybooks.com. Accessed 20 Dec 2016.
