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Australian Literature and Alternative Modernities
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Change - Conflict and Convergence : Austral-Asian Scenarios 2010; (p. 80-93) Bill Ashcroft explores the 'somewhat outrageous idea of Australia as an alternative modernity'. He states: 'This appears absurd on the face of it because Australia is a westernised, developed nation. It appears even more absurd as we emerge out of eleven years of slavish adherence to American unilateralism. Therefore, I realise that I am walking on very thin ice here. However, the habit has been to think of alternative modernities as alternative to the West...' (p. 81)
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Revisiting Australia : Historical Fabrications, Telling Histories/Stories and Other Colonial Delusions in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 219-236) -
Reading Post-Colonial Australia
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 15-37)
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Reading Post-Colonial Australia
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 15-37) -
Revisiting Australia : Historical Fabrications, Telling Histories/Stories and Other Colonial Delusions in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 219-236) -
Australian Literature and Alternative Modernities
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Change - Conflict and Convergence : Austral-Asian Scenarios 2010; (p. 80-93) Bill Ashcroft explores the 'somewhat outrageous idea of Australia as an alternative modernity'. He states: 'This appears absurd on the face of it because Australia is a westernised, developed nation. It appears even more absurd as we emerge out of eleven years of slavish adherence to American unilateralism. Therefore, I realise that I am walking on very thin ice here. However, the habit has been to think of alternative modernities as alternative to the West...' (p. 81)
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Subjects:
- My Life as a Fake 2003 single work novel
- The Darkening Ecliptic 1944 collected work poetry
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