Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature : International Perspectives.

Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature : International Perspectives.

The contemporary study of Australian literature ranges widely across issues of general cultural studies, the politics of identity (both ethnic and gendered), and the position of Australia within wider postcolonial contexts. This volume intervenes in the most significant of issues in these areas from...

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Main Author: Callahan, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Subjects:
Australian literature.
Australian literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Australian Literary Studies Bushwhacked?; Insecurity and Institutions; Representative Texts and the Unruly; 'Australian' Australian Studies; Notes; Cyberspace and Oz Lit: Mark Davis, McKenzie Wark and the Re-Alignment of Australian Literature; Gangsters as Gatekeepers; On Not Reading; Offshore Interventions; Notes; Ethnic Autobiography and the Cult of Authenticity; Autobiography, Gender and the Paradoxes of Native Authenticity; Aboriginal Women's Life-Narratives and the Construction of the 'Market Reader'
  • Competing Authenticities -Some Passing Thoughts on PassingAcknowledgement; Notes; Melancholy in Mudrooroo's Dr Wooreddy's Prescription; Formations of Melancholy; Writing the Melancholy of the Colonial; Politicising Melancholy; Notes; Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves; The Status and Relevance of Literary Tradition; Post-emancipation and Transition; Conclusion; Notes; Misogyny, Muscles and Machines: Cars and Masculinity in Australian Literature; Masculinity; Misogyny; Relating to a Machine; Masculine Bodies; Slippage; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Notes.
  • May in September: Australian Literature as Anglophone AlternativeA Rationale for the Study of Australian Literature; The Nineteenth Century and After; Gerald Murnane and the Dispensable Nation; Notes; From European Satellite to Asian Backwater?; Multiculturalism and the Multiculturalist Perspective; Alterity and Identity: Two South Asian Literary Perspectives; Colonialism, Hybridity and Unbelonging; Conclusion; Notes; Australia in Oceania; Literary Alignments and Austral Oceania; Movements and Migrations; Conclusion; Notes; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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