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Scandinavia,Western Europe,Europe,:Novus Press,2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Through the concept of cultural citizenship, Ommundsen comments on recent literary portrayals of asylum seeking and refugee experiences and how they might speak to contemporary views on multiculturalism in Australia.
Susan Ballyn reads the journal of the surgeon of the convict transport ship Sarah to make visible the convict body, and to reconstruct the story of John Perez de Castanos, one of the foreign convicts brought to Van Diemen's Land aboard Sarah.
Pons looks at the interplay of history and fiction in Gould's Book of Fish, 'with fiction compensating for the lies and omissions of history, and history vouching for the relevance of fiction' (183).
