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Examines the book and the film Turtle Beach and their quasi-doumentary techniques in relation to historical accuracy and ethnic stereotypes.

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  • This article was first published as Chapter 5 in Australia's Ambivalence towards Asia (q.v.), pp. 199-257. It has been edited and condensed from the original by John Ryan.

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    y separately published work icon Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader Amit Sarwal (editor), Reema Sarwal (editor), New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009 Z1560703 2009 anthology criticism

    This literary reader on Australian studies for India not only investigates this central question by exploring many other facets of Australian literature especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, it explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied genres of drama, poetry, autobiography. explorers' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literture, horror, crime fiction, queer writing and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness" (Source: Backcover).

         New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009     pg. 594-622
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y separately published work icon Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia : Politics, Neo/Post-Colonialism, and Fact/Fiction J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , Malaysia : Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia , 2000 Z1122071 2000 single work criticism

Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia 'considers contemporary and historical examples from Australian culture, literature, politics, media and society, contrasting Asian traditions and the experience of non-Anglo migrants in Australia. This is an account of the worldview underlying much of Anglo-Australian culture, of the difficulty it has had in understanding Asia and Asians, and in constructing a meaningful and durable relationship with Asian societies and cultures.' (Publisher's blurb)

A significant section of the book (p.199-269) focuses on Blanche D'Alpuget's Turtle Beach, a novel published in 1981 and set in Malaysia. D'Cruz and Steele examine the novel's theoretical, cultural and political framework, and deconstruct the manner in which the book positions the reader.
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    Malaysia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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