At the link to which the DOI takes you, from Australian Literary Studies, it says
Cite as: Wilkins, Kim and Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher. ‘What is Australian Popular Fiction?.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 33, no. 4, 2018
I'm not doing that, though, because when I accessed the text of the article the authors were listed at the top with Fletcher first, then Driscoll and then Wilkins.
This is about a range of different genres, but it does include quotes from some Australian romance authors.
In considering the Australianness of Australian popular fiction, we respond to Ken Gelder’s call for scholars to take seriously the intellectual challenge that popular fiction, with its distinctive industrial processes and transnational mobility, poses to the category of Australian literature (114). Gelder argues that there is a typical alignment of popular fiction with homogenising globalisation, and of literature with the local; accordingly, ‘[t]he placement of a localised literary realism at the heart of the Australian canon ensured the marginalisation of transnational popular fiction’ (115). Our research contributes to the troubling of this binary and the cementing of popular fiction in the sphere of Australian literary studies. (2)
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We asked every writer we interviewed if they consider themselves an ‘Australian writer’, and most did, displaying varying levels of national pride. Some authors were unequivocal one way or another. [...] romance writer Stephanie Laurens responded with a definite, ‘Not at all.I think of myself as an author’. (3)
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Romance writer Stefanie London explains,‘I would classify myself as an international author. I am Australian and I write Australian romances but I definitely write other things too’.Fellow romance writer Kelly Hunter makes a similar point: ‘even though I don’t always write Australian settings . . . [m]y underlying perspective is that of an Australian person’. (4)
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Given the diversity of genres and settings of Australian popular fiction works, surprisingly similar answers emerged from our interviews about what constitutes an Australian voice or attitude in popular fiction: egalitarianism, anti-authoritarianism, humour and casual language are chief among the traits cited. (4)
At the link to which the DOI takes you, from Australian Literary Studies, it says
I'm not doing that, though, because when I accessed the text of the article the authors were listed at the top with Fletcher first, then Driscoll and then Wilkins.
This is about a range of different genres, but it does include quotes from some Australian romance authors.
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