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1 y separately published work icon Mediating Literary Borders : Asian Australian Writing Janet Wilson (editor), Chandani Lokuge (editor), London : Routledge , 2018 21139239 2018 anthology criticism '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 critical 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. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.' (Publication summary)
1 Transnational Movements : Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific Janet Wilson , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Novel in English : The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 2017; (p. 141-156)

'Movements to and from the white settler colonies were always active during the colonial and nationalist phases, commonly represented in terms of expatriation and exile and centred on England, though with some movement to the United States and Europe as well...' (Introduction)

1 1 y separately published work icon Postcolonial Gateways and Walls : Under Construction Daria Tunca (editor), Janet Wilson (editor), Leiden Boston : Brill , 2016 12950558 2016 anthology criticism

'Metaphors are ubiquitously used in the humanities to bring the tangibility of the concrete world to the elaboration of abstract thought. Drawing on this cognitive function of metaphors, this collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the `gateway' and the `wall' to reflect on the state of postcolonial studies. Some chapters - on such topics as maze-making in Canada and the Berlin Wall in the writings of New Zealand authors - foreground the modes of articulation between literal borders and emotional (dis)connections, while others examine how artefacts ranging from personal letters to clothes may be conceptualized as metaphorical `gateways' and `walls' that lead or, conversely, regulate access, to specific forms of cultural expression and knowledge. Following this line of metaphorical thought, postcolonial studies itself may be said to function as either barrier or pathway to further modes of enquiry. This much is suggested by two complementary sets of contributions: on the one hand, those that contend that the canonical centre-periphery paradigm and the related `writing back' model have prevented scholars from recognizing the depth and magnitude of cross-cultural influences between civilizations; on the other, those that argue that the scope of traditional postcolonial models may be fruitfully widened to include territories such as post-imperial Turkey, a geographical and cultural gateway between East and West that features in several of the essays included in this collection. Ultimately, all of the contributions testify to the fact that postcolonial studies is a field whose borders must be constantly redrawn, and whose paradigms need to be continually reshaped and rebuilt to remain relevant in the contemporary world - in other words, the collection's varied approaches suggest that the discipline itself is permanently `under construction'. Readers are, therefore, invited to perform a critical inspection of the postcolonial construction site.'   (Publication summary)

1 (Not) Being at Home: Hsu Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon (2005) and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2012) Janet Wilson , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , December vol. 52 no. 5 2016; (p. 545-558) Mediating Literary Borders : Asian Australian Writing 2018; (p. 19-32)
'This article examines some interventions of Asian Australian writing into the debate over multiculturalism, and the shift from negative stereotyping of Asian migrants, to reification of racial divisions and propagation of a masked racism, to the creation of new alignments and the revival of pre-existing affiliations by migrant and second-generation subjects. It compares the practices of not-at-homeness by Asian migrants and their descendants and white Australians in Hsu Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon with those of a Sri Lankan refugee and a white Australian traveller in Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel. The changing concepts of belonging in the novels show a realignment of core and periphery relations within the nation state under the pressures of multiculturalism and globalization: where home is and how it is configured are questions as important for white Australians whose sense of territory is challenged as they are for Asian migrants who seek to establish a new belonging.' (Publication summary)
1 Introduction : Realigning the Margins : Asian Australian Writing Janet Wilson , Chandani Lokuge , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , December vol. 52 no. 5 2016; (p. 527-532) Mediating Literary Borders : Asian Australian Writing 2018; (p. 1-6)
1 Memories of Syd Harrex Janet Wilson , 2015 single work obituary (for S. C. Harrex )
— Appears in: Asiatic , June vol. 9 no. 1 2015; (p. 20-21)
1 Antipodean Rewritings of Great Expectations : Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997) and Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (2007) Janet Wilson , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Shadow of the Precursor 2012; (p. 220-235)
'Counter-discourse theory urges readings of postcolonial fictions that are renarrativisations of canonical texts of empire in terms of their strategies of resistance. Recent novels by Peter Carey and Lloyd Jones amply acknowledge their debt to their precursor, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, but this chapter argues that the contestatory imperial relationship is overlaid with the equally compelling theme of postcolonial home and belonging. Carey exploits the oppositional "writing back" paradigm; Jones, by contrast, makes veneration of the Dickensian text central to his plot. Both, however, can also be described as diasporic novels in their preoccupation with the colony as home, as their colonial protagonists, after a fraught encounter with their Victorian heritage in the metropolitan centre of London, find their destiny/destination in the "return." Although this diasporic reading reiterates the familiar binaries of metropolitan centre and colonial periphery, it repositions the filial relationship as one of postcolonial habitation and settlement.' (220)
1 Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland : The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia Janet Wilson , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas 2009; (p. 125-145)
1 Untitled Janet Wilson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 7 2008;

— Review of Australian Film : Cultures, Identities, Texts Adi Wimmer , 2008 single work criticism
1 [Review] The Piano Janet Wilson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 6 2008;

— Review of The Piano Gail Jones , 2007 single work criticism
1 Untitled Janet Wilson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 7 2007;

— Review of The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand 2007 anthology criticism
1 Reconsidering Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) : The Screen Adaptation of Thomas Keneally's Novel (1972) Janet Wilson , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 1 no. 2 2007; (p. 191-207)
1 Untitled Janet Wilson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , vol. 40 no. 1 2004; (p. 152-153)

— Review of Australian Short Fiction : A History Bruce Bennett , 2002 multi chapter work criticism
1 Untitled Janet Wilson , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , vol. 38 no. 1 1999; (p. 125-126)

— Review of States of Imagination : Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Australian and Southern Asian Literature John McLaren , 2001 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon World Literature Written in English WLWE Janet Wilson (editor), 1962 Austin : University of Texas Press , Z923924 1962 periodical (57 issues)
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