Brian Castro
Articles
- Impossible Coincidences: Narrative Strategy in Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage
Discusses the 'metarealistic' narrative strategy employed by Castro, 'the purpose of which is to unlock the gates of alienation'. Argues that the strategy 'essentially consists…
1 October 1990 - The Artful Man: Theory and Authority in Brian Castro’s Fiction
The article discusses the critical reception of the work of Brian Castro, especially the responses to his use of critical theory in his novels. In…
1 May 2002 - Theory as Fireworks: An Interview with Brian Castro
Castro discusses the relationship of his work to literary theory, questions of authorship, style and genre, and the purpose of literature.
1 May 2002 - ‘Things are Cast Adrift’: Brian Castro’s Fiction
Extensively quotes from Castro's comments on his own writing process in order to show how such 'self-referential games ... in the literary playground' construct and…
1 October 1995 - ‘Are you weaker than a woman, weaker even than a mother?’: Abjection and Infanticide in Dead Europe and Drift
'To discuss Dead Europe with Brian Castro's Drift, I return to Kristeva's claim that abjection is always rooted in our relation to the mother…
1 October 2007