Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Australian & Oceanian

Patrick White (1912 1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia s most celebrated writers. This book represents new work by an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe. White s centenary revived mainstream interest in White in Australia and included a major exhibition on his life at the National Library of Australia. So too did the discovery of a highly significant hoard of hitherto unknown papers which were released by White s literary executor Barbara Mobbs in 2006. The book aims to carry this momentum outwards to the rest of the...

Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic. An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct, even uniquely opposed reading contexts, this study has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.

Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic is an investigative expose of Australian literature's revealing career in East Germany....

This book takes as its subject a body of recent fiction by white liberal writers produced in the wake of the profound cultural, political and legal transformations that have taken place in the field of Indigenous rights since the 1990s. The novels explored in this study are Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country (2002) and Landscape of Farewell (2007), Andrew McGahan's The White Earth (2004), Kate Grenville's The Secret River (2005) and Gail Jones' Sorry (2007). Each of these novels was written in the period between 2002 and 2007. These were the years when the Indigenous rights and...

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'Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators' argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard's concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the elements within multiculturalism that have been forgotten in its contemporary denigration. Gunew attaches this discussion to debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade, creating a framework for re-evaluating post-multicultural and Indigenous writers in settler colonies such as Canada and...