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Author GUNEW, SNEJA

Title Post-multicultural writers as neo-cosmopolitan mediators / Sneja Gunew
Published [Place of publication not identified] : ANTHEM Press, 2017

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Series Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture ; 1
Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture ; 1.
Contents Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction The World at Home: Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators; The Argument; Vernacular Cosmopolitanism; Post-Multiculturalism: A Future Anterior; Chapter Outlines; Chapters (1-6); Chapter 1 Who Counts as Human Within (European) Modernity?; Patchwork Selves and Modernity; "European" as Floating Signifier in the Settler Colonies; Who Counts as European?; Cosmopolitanism and Occidentalism; Chapter 2 Vernacular Cosmopolitans
Allegories of Cosmopolitanism: "Eastern" EuropeImagining the Stranger: Olivia Manning, Rose Tremain and Rana Dasgupta; Imagining Oneself as Stranger: Dubravka Ugresic and Herta Müller; Interpellated as Stranger (Imagining Home): Antigone Kefala; Eur/Asian Vernacular Cosmopolitans; Cosmopolitanism and World Literature; Imagining the Stranger: Kyo Maclear; Imagining Oneself as Stranger: Fiona Tan; Interpellated as Stranger (Imagining Home): Ann Marie Fleming; Chapter 3 The Serial Accommodations of Diaspora Writings; The Dubious Consolations of Diaspora Criticism
Resident Aliens: Diasporic Women's WritingPolitics of Location: Here as Much as There; Revising Unhomely Histories; Reviewing the Homeland after Diaspora; Chapter 4 Indigenous Cosmopolitanism: The Claims of Time; "Moving between Languages, Bobby Wrote on Stone"; Ambiguous Archives; Cannibal Christianity; The Planetary; Deep Time; Chapter 5 The Cosmopolitanism in/of Language: English Performativity; English Performativity; Ouyang Yu: The English Class; Wang Gang: English; Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers; Ruiyan Xu: The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai; Coda
Chapter 6 Acoustic Cosmopolitanism: Echoes of MultilingualismAcoustic Palimpsests; Tsiolkas: Barracuda; Castro: The Garden Book; Clarke: "The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa"; Post-Multiculturalism; Conclusion Back to the Future and the Immanent Cosmopolitanism of Post-Multicultural Writers; End Matter; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; General Index
Summary 'Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators' is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Australian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism
Literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
Multiculturalism in literature.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Australian literature
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors
Cosmopolitanism in literature
Literature -- Minority authors
Multiculturalism in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783086658
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