Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Conflating Class, Culture and Ethnicity : Casual and Culinary Forms of Racism in Alice Pung’s Laurinda
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'Literature can function as a lens through which social values are mediated. This characteristic acquires particular relevance in the case of children’s and young adult literatures as the world-view of the young readership is especially susceptible to the ideologies articulated in literary works. This article investigates the critical depiction of Australian multicultural society in Alice Pung’s novel Laurinda (2014). By analysing the role of food in both the novel’s plot and its figurative language, the article explores the novel’s illustration of the alienation of Asian minorities that is triggered by instances of overt and casual racism. The tangibility of foodways enables the illustration of how a lack of interaction between distinct social classes and ethnic groups is conducive to an absence of cross-group understanding that contributes towards the conflation of class, cultural and racial differences and prevents the achievement of the multicultural dream.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture vol. 7 no. 2 September 2018 14605076 2018 periodical issue

    'Since its inception, The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture has published some of the most exciting new research in the area of popular culture. This has included work on varied aspects of Australasian popular culture, and research by a range of Australasian scholars. While, however, a feature of the journal, this focus on Australasian content and writers has not excluded the inclusion of a wide range of international subject matter and contributing authors. This combination has, indeed, become a signature strength of this journal, and this issue is no exception.'  (Introduction)

    2018
    pg. 255-272
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