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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Re-discovering the Australian Multicultural Literature Collection : An Interview with Sneja Gunew
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'In late 2020, Daniella and Michel interviewed Sneja Gunew, founder of The Australian Multicultural Literature Collection (AMLC), to get an overview of the archive: how it started, what the collection methodology was, and why it was, and continues to be, crucial for critically studying and theorizing Australian multiculturalism, ethnicity and race, and migrant life and writing in neo-colonial Australia.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 36 no. 6 2022 26607477 2022 periodical issue 'This special section draws on research being carried out on a significant though largely hidden archive of multicultural writing held at Deakin University – the Australian Multicultural Collection (AMC)—established in 1991 by literary and cultural theorist Sneja Gunew. The goal of the AMC was to support research of multicultural groups with connections to Australia, with an emphasis on diasporic writers, artists, and interdisciplinary creatives living in Australia at the time, forming ‘the first comprehensive collection of multicultural literature in Australia’ (Gunew, Post 133). The AMC was maintained for approximately ten years via the Australian Multicultural Bicentennial Foundation. The intention was for the archive to be continually updated; however, after Gunew left Australia for Canada in the early twenty-first century, engagement with the archive dwindled, to the extent that, when Gunew attempted to donate books from her personal collection upon her retirement, she was unable to locate its whereabouts.' (Archives and autographics: reanimating diaspora in the Transpacific : Introduction) 2022 pg. 894-901
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