澳大利亚后现代小说述略

Postmodern fiction in Australia emerged as early as in the 1970s under the name of New Writing and it became the New Novel in the 1980s and "postmodern literary fiction" in the 1990s. Within some three decades,it formed a tradition with its own characteristics:1)Australian postmodern fiction has seldom been called by that name; 2)Australian postmodern fiction was as much interested in the sublime as it was in the playful; 3)Australian postmodern fiction shrank in the 1990s as a result of the conservative backlash against postmodernism. The fall of postmodern fiction in Australia resembled that of modernism in early 20th century and its rejection at the hand of right-wingers is another example of Australia’s postcolonial belatedness in accepting anything radically new from abroad.