Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 New Cultural Scripts : Exploring the Dialogue between Indigenous and 'Asian' Australians
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The article challenges the separation of indigenous and migrant discourses and communities through an exploration of the cross-cultural partnerships and alliances between Indigenous and Asian peoples within Australia. It examines the historical links forged between Aboriginal communities and Asian seafarers in the colonies and with non-European migrant communities. It also examines various literary works, the visual arts and other cultural productions in order to outline the conflicts and points of solidarity that structure contemporary relations between Aboriginal and Asian Australians. The last part of the article argues 'for a new imagining of nation that neither separates nor entirely equates Indigenous and Asian peoples and discourses' (58).

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies JAS no. 77 2003 Z1039113 2003 periodical issue Sojourners and Strangers 2003 pg. 57-68, notes 189-191
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader Amit Sarwal (editor), Reema Sarwal (editor), New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009 Z1560703 2009 anthology criticism

    This literary reader on Australian studies for India not only investigates this central question by exploring many other facets of Australian literature especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, it explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied genres of drama, poetry, autobiography. explorers' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literture, horror, crime fiction, queer writing and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness" (Source: Backcover).

    New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009
    pg. 526-538
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