Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing

Chandani Lokuge (Editor), Janet Wilson (Editor)

Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review

Abstract

Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding new transnational and transcultural frameworks of such syncretic writing, the contributors collectively examine how the varied and diverse body of Asian Australian literary work intervenes into contemporary representational politics and culture. The book questions for instance, the ideology of Australian multiculturalism; the core/periphery hierarchy; the perpetuation of Orientalist attitudes and stereotypes; and white Australian claims to belong as seen in its myths of cultural authenticity and authority. Ranging in critical analyses from the historic first Chinese-Australian novel to contemporary award winning Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and Filipino Australian novels, the book provides an inside view of the ways in which Asian Australian literary work is reshaping Australian mainstream literature, politics and culture, and in the wider context, the world literary scene.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages114
ISBN (Print)9780203703175
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Australian Literature
  • migration
  • diaspora
  • Asian

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Lokuge, C., & Wilson, J. (Eds.) (2018). Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing. Routledge.
Lokuge, Chandani (Editor) ; Wilson, Janet (Editor). / Mediating Literary Borders : Asian Australian Writing. Routledge, 2018. 114 p.
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Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review

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Lokuge C, (ed.), Wilson J, (ed.). Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing. Routledge, 2018. 114 p.