Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature International Perspectives

Name: Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature International Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780714652375

ISBN-10: 0714652377

ISBN-13: 9780714652375

Edition: 2002

Authors: David Callahan

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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…

Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 190
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Australian Literary Studies Bushwhacked?



Cyberspace and Oz Lit: Mark Davis, McKenzie Wark and the Re-Alignment of Australian Literature



Ethnic Autobiography and the Cult of Authenticity



Melancholy in Mudrooroo's Dr Wooreddy's Prescription



Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves



Misogyny, Muscles and Machines: Cars and Masculinity in Australian Literature



May in September: Australian Literature as Anglophone Alternative



From European Satellite to Asian Backwater?



Australia in Oceania



Notes on Contributors


Index