| Description |
xxiv, 256 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sneja Gunew and Kateryna O. Longley -- Pt. I. Theoretical perspectives. 1. Necessary idiocy and the idea of freedom / Brian Castro. 2. Lines of communication: Meaning in the migrant environment / Paul Carter. 3. Fifth World / Kateryna O. Longley. 4. Multicultural aesthetics: A preliminary definition / Manfred Jurgensen. 5. PMT (Post modernist tensions): Reading for (multi)cultural difference / Sneja Gunew -- Pt. II. Literary histories. 6. Statement / Antigone Kefala. 7. Paradox of the empty socks (or, Slowing down to hurry up) / Peter Skrzynecki. 8. The Greek dimensions of Australian literature / Con Castan. 9. About multicultural writing / Walter Adamson. 10. Teething pains / Maria Lewitt. 11. The literary and paraliterary expression of the Italo-Australian migrant experience / Gaetano Rando. 12. Neither here nor there, left nor right nor centre: Functioning as a multicultural writer in Australia / Lolo Houbein. 13. Multicultural Australian literature and me / Jim Kable. 14. Life makes some strange connections / Lidija Simkus-Pocius. 15. Writing from a non-Anglo perspective / Anna Couani -- Pt. III. Author studies. 16. Before the migrant writer: Judah Waten and the shaping of a literary career / David Carter. 17. Letter in response to a questionnaire / Margaret Coombs. 18. Mena Abdullah, Australian writer / Yasmine Gooneratne. 19. Instead of a statement / Aina Vavere |
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20. 'In Australia, we read it differently ...' : Interculturality and the theory of literary criticism / Walter Veit. 21. Promitheas and his offerings / Vasso Kalamaras. 22. The journeys within: Migration and identity in Greek-Australian literature / Nikos Papastergiadis -- Pt. IV. Subversive re-readings. 23. Exoticism is just a boutique form of xenophobia: Writing in a multicultural society / George Papaellinas. 24. Speak as you eat: Reading migrant writing, naturally / Efi Hatzimanolis. 25. The migrant and the comedy of excess in recent Australian writing / Ivor Indyk. 26. Irritations / Dewi Anggraeni. 27. This eternal curiosity: The search for a voice in the wilderness / Cornelis Vleeskens. 28. Artists and islands in the Pacific / Satendra Nandan. 29. The Goulash Archipelago / Rosa Safransky -- Pt. V. Re-writings. 30. Move over Shahrazad / Zeny Giles. 31. Concrete poetry and my work / Thalia. 32. Miklouho-Maclay and his dingo / Birimbir Wongar. 33. all about ania / Ania Walwicz |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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Cultural pluralism in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Minorities in literature.
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| Author |
Gunew, Sneja Marina, 1946-
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Longley, Kateryna O. (Kateryna Olijnyk)
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| LC no. |
92200791 |
| ISBN |
1863730893 |
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