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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... vol. 32 no. 4 December 2008 of Journal of Australian Studies est. 1977 Journal of Australian Studies
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Food, Race and the Power of Recuperative Identity Politics within Asian Australian Women's Fiction, Robyn Morris , single work criticism
'This article considers the link between consumption, cuisine and agency in fiction by Asian Australian writers, Hsu-Ming Teo, Simone Lazaroo and Lillian Ng. It argues that the issue of whether these writers employ an oppositional poetics during the process of textualising or fictionalisng their experience and reactions to racialised and gendered practices can be addressed through an evaluation of their deployment of the food metaphor. In other words, do these writers challenge the assumption of a monolithic national identity in which Australian multiculturalism is equated with eating or tasting but disavowing the other?' (499)
(p. 499-508)
Phantom Limbs and Cultural Ventriloquism : Communicating Cultural Difference as a Novelist, Hsu-Ming Teo , single work criticism
'This essay considers the "phantom presences" that shadow attempts by novelists in contemporary Australia to communicate within and across cultures. Cross-cultural communication is haunted by "phantom limbs" in all sorts of ways: the phantom limb of the revenant white nation, the phantom limbs of various cultures migrants left behind, and the phantom limb of "home" - of "landscapes [which] ache in all places of departures". The essay explores technical issues of cultural representation - a process which ultimately cannot avoid problematic constructions of self-orientalising ethnicity. I explain the personal context through which my novels Love and Vertigo (2000) and Behind the Monn (2005) were produced and the historical context of the novels' publication. I then consider the content of multicultural/ethnic Australian fiction within the broader context of Australian history, looking at how this legacy - a legacy of phantom presences - shapes cross-cultural writing as well as responses to this genre of fiction.' (521)
(p. 521-529)
Untitled, Barbara Baird , single work review
— Review of The Making of Me : Finding My Future After Assault Tegan Wagner , 2007 single work autobiography ;
(p. 553-556)
Untitled, Sarah Ogilvie , single work review
— Review of Stunned Mullets and Two-Pot Screamers: A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms G. A. Wilkes , 2008 reference ;
(p. 562-564)
Untitled, Lisa Slater , single work review
— Review of Just Words? : Australian Authors Writing for Justice 2008 anthology criticism essay ;
(p. 564-565)
Untitled, Luisa Percopo , single work review
— Review of The Outsiders Within : Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story Peta Stephenson , 2007 single work criticism ;
(p. 565-566)
[Review] Growing Up Asian in Australia, Luisa Percopo , single work review
— Review of Growing up Asian in Australia 2008 anthology autobiography short story poetry interview extract ;
(p. 567-568)
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