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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... vol. 29 no. 1 Autumn 2006 of Commonwealth est. 1974 Commonwealth
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* Contents derived from the 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Foreigners at Home: Female Characters in Chandani Lokuge's Turtle Nest and Punyakante Wijenaike's Giraya, Xavier Pons , single work criticism (p. 41-58)
Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels, Xavier Pons , single work criticism
'The paper focuses on scenes from three Australian novels ... . Through an analysis of the representation of sexual intercourse by the three novelists, the paper highlights the sense of strangeness associated with the postcolonial, born out of the colonists' feeling that they do not truly belong to their adopted land and must force themselves upon it. Sex, which can be an expression of love, here degenerates into lust, violence or parody. It becomes an expression of the unnerving alienation which overcomes Europeans in a postcolonial context. Sex here as a struggle for domination is a paradigm of the perverted human relations which are inherent in the postcolonial condition. In his own fashion, and through a variety of narrative modes, each of the three (male) novelists illustrates the unbearable strangeness of being in an alien land.' (47)
(p. 47-58)
Crossing and Pushing Boundaries of Strangeness in Contemporary Aboriginal Poetry, Estelle Castro-Koshy , single work criticism
'The aim of this article is to show how Aboriginal poets explore and picture the difficulties of being othered when being othered actually means being erased, dismissed, merchandised [...] Through a poetics and politics of relation and resistance, poets such as Lisa Bellear, Lionel Fogarty and Samuel Wagan Watson open new fields and ways of expression, bringing to the fore, through their art, the ethical values of their imaginaries' (Author's abstract).
(p. 97-107)

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Alternative title: Strange/Stranger
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