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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Postcolonial Dislocations
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Oslo,
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Norway,
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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.
In the Wake of the Tampa : Multiculturalism, Cultural Citizenship and Australian Refugee Narratives, Wenche Ommundsen , single work criticism
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.
 (p. 21-35)
Cultural Translation and the Dynamics of Self-Definition in Australia, Luisa Percopo , single work criticism
Percopo examines the trope of food in two narratives of migration and 'transcultural identities' (71).
 (p. 67-79)
Retrieving the Convict Voice and Body from Historical Silence and Invisibility, Susan Ballyn , single work criticism
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.
 (p. 81-91)
'The Authority of Words' : History and Fiction in Richard Flanagan's 'Gould's Book of Fish.', Xavier Pons , single work criticism
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).
 (p. 173-183)
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