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1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE -- INTRODUCTION; PART 1: POST-WARMIGRATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS; CHAPTER TWO -- MULTICULTURAL TEXTS IN THE 1990s; CHAPTER THREE -- READING NATION IN THE 90s; PART 2: QUEER AND EUROPEAN JOURNEYS; CHAPTER FOUR -- THE QUEER AND EUROPEAN JOURNEY OF ROBERT DESSAIX AND NIGHT LETTERS; CHAPTER FIVE -- THE QUEER AND EUROPEAN JOURNEY OF CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS AND DEAD EUROPE; PART 3: UNSETTLED HISTORIES AND UNSTABLE GEOGRAPHIES; CHAPTER SIX -- BURDENED BY HISTORY; CHAPTER SEVEN -- RE-SITING THE YELLOW LADY |
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Chapter eight -- transnational and uncannyconclusion; notes; bibliography; index |
| Summary |
Un-Australian Fictions sets out to analyse a subset of Australian literary fictions published between 1988 and 2008 - from the bicentenary of British settlement to the global financial crisis and into a new millennium. During a new transnational era, Australians faced sober and unsettling times. Already accorded the status of national obsession, issues of national identity were vigorously contested. Concepts such as the nation, multiculturalism and globalisation became topics for heated discu .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Australian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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National characteristics, Australian, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Australian fiction
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National characteristics, Australian, in literature
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Australien
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013375772 |
| ISBN |
9781443865906 |
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1443865907 |
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1322057257 |
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9781322057255 |
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1443843393 |
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9781443843393 |
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