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'Displacement leads to a high sensitivity to space and its potential to affect constructions of identity. Immigrants are continually confronted with the questions of who belongs to a country and who a country belongs to. In this paper I examine representations of Australia in two novels by writers of South Asian origin resident in Australia, Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies (1991) and Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments (1994). In doing so, I argue for a transcultural reading of Australia's position as an ambivalent diasporic location: white, Anglophone, but situated outside the 'western' centre.' (Author's abstract p. 154)
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Beyond the Centre and Margin : Representations of Australia in South Asian Immigrant Writings
Subjects:
- A Change of Skies 1991 single work novel
- Seasonal Adjustments 1994 single work novel
- The Time of the Peacock : Stories 1965 selected work short story
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