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Christopher Koch: drawn to comics Paper in special conference issue: Australian Literature in a Global World. Ommundsen, Wenche and Simoes da Silva. Tony (eds).
2009
Overview
In debates about appreciation and interpretation of literature, Christopher Koch is an outspoken, and often controversial, figure. In his now famed acceptance speech for the 1996 Miles Franklin award for his Vietnam War novel, 'Highways to a War', Koch berated the 'bullies' in the ranks of the literary community for ignoring Beauty in Literature, and for seeing authors as 'blind instruments of social forces'. He deplores what he terms the postmodern approach to critical analysis, and continues in this vein when he writes the foreword to 'Education and the Ideal' (2004), questioning why children are 'studying films, comic strips and hopelessly bad contemporary novels with social messages, rather than major works that have stood the test of time' (vii). It is somewhat surprising then, to study Koch's novels and uncover how frequently his work is informed by childhood influences and his love of comic books. The question raised is whether unwittingly Koch, as an author, is indeed an instrument of social forces.
