Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 'Taming Distance' : Cross-Cultural Connections in the Work of Nicholas Jose
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

The articles discusses the treatment and presentation of China in Jose's novels, on the background of the tradition of imaginative engagement with Asia by other Australian authors. It argues that although Jose subscribes at times both to the myth of Asia's mystery and to cliches of oriental mysticism, his work differs from previous generations of Australian novelists in that the author looks to the possibility of "Sino-Australian symbiosis" as part of a desirable, if utopian, aim. Thus his work testifies to a shift in emphasis in respect of cross-cultural pursuits and the post-colonial stance, possibly subverting the notion of a unitary national identity.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Last amended 22 Nov 2001 16:44:04
45-57 'Taming Distance' : Cross-Cultural Connections in the Work of Nicholas Josesmall AustLit logo The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Subjects:
  • c
    China,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Asia,
  • c
    Australia,
    c
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X