Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature: International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780714652375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 190 str.

David Callahan

Opis

The contemporary study of Australian literature, as befitting that of a country that has been at the forefront of postcolonial studies, is a highly self-conscious and theoreticized enterprise, carried on by academics across the globe and not just Australians concerned with asserting their national identity as used to be the case. This volume deals with issues such as the tensions between literary and cultural studies, indigenous autobiography, postcolonial nostalgia, masculinity, the placing of Australia in the Pacific and in Asia, the uses of Australian literature in the United States, and includes the considerations of such widely-studied authors as Mudrooroo, Peter Carey and Patrick White.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Australian Literary Studies Bushwhacked?, David Callahan; Chapter 2 Cyberspace and Oz Lit, Ruth Brown; Chapter 3 Ethnic Autobiography and the Cult of Authenticity, Graham Huggan; Chapter 4 Melancholy in Mudrooroo’s Dr Wooreddy’s Prescription, Anne Maxwell; Chapter 5 Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves, Briar Wood; Chapter 6 Misogyny, Muscles and Machines, Rebecca Johinke; Chapter 7 May in September, Nicholas Birns; Chapter 8 From European Satellite to Asian Backwater?, Lars Jensen; Chapter 9 Australia in Oceania, Juniper Ellis;

O autorze

David Callahan