Looking Through the Looking Glass: a Study of Identity Issues in Peter Carey's Novels
by Zhang Jilian
About This Novel
In the more than two hundred years since Australia was named, Australians have invented their own cultural traditions and many national myths. These myths include "the discovery of Australia's unclaimed land by white Europeans", "the Australian bush myth", "Australia is white people's Australia", "the myth of Australia's happy lifestyle", and so on. Peter Carey, a famous contemporary Australian writer, conducted a series of deconstructive activities on these myths constructed by Australian society and history in his novels. As a spokesperson for national culture, Carey is committed to exploring the most common and fundamental social issues in Australia, namely the complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty of national identity, national identity and cultural identity. This book starts from the Australian-British and Australian-American relations reflected in Carey's novel creation, and studies identity issues such as the crisis and turning point of Australia's national identity, the ambiguity and clarification of national identity, the dilemma and transcendence of cultural identity, and Australians' exploration of self-identity.
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