Generational Reinvention: Neo-Marxism’s New Perspectives in Oceanic Literature ––  Dougal McNeill. Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature

Otago University Press. 2024, 248 pages. AU$49.95, ISBN 9781990048760 (Paperback)

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  • Marvin Gilman Independent Scholar

Abstract

Marvin Gilman reviews Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature by Dougal McNeill.

Author Biography

  • Marvin Gilman, Independent Scholar
    Marvin Gilman has tutored in Australian Literature at Western Sydney University and the University of Wollongong. For many years, he was the book review editor of Australian-Canadian Studies, the journal of the Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ). He is acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars in the comparative Anglo-Canadian/Australian literary area.  He published Attraction and Repulsion: Perceptions of Communism in Anglo-Canadian and Australian Literature (2018) in Toronto, Canada. His most recent publication is 2X Essays The Little Red Book of American Culture (2022). In 2025, his first book of poetry entitled, Pomes Pommery, will appear.

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Published

2025-01-07

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2024): JASAL 24.1

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Reviews

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Generational Reinvention: Neo-Marxism’s New Perspectives in Oceanic Literature ––  Dougal McNeill. Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature : Otago University Press. 2024, 248 pages. AU$49.95, ISBN 9781990048760 (Paperback). (2025). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 24(1). https://openjournals.test.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/20443