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Bill Ashcroft explores the 'somewhat outrageous idea of Australia as an alternative modernity'. He states: 'This appears absurd on the face of it because Australia is a westernised, developed nation. It appears even more absurd as we emerge out of eleven years of slavish adherence to American unilateralism. Therefore, I realise that I am walking on very thin ice here. However, the habit has been to think of alternative modernities as alternative to the West...' (p. 81)
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Australian Literature and Alternative Modernities
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- Against the Tide of Time : Peter Carey's Interpolation into History 1996 single work criticism
- Reading Carey Reading Malley 2004 single work criticism
- Simulation, Resistance and Transformation : The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 2005 single work criticism
- The Empire Writes Back : Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures 1989 single work criticism
- The Writer in Australia : A Collection of Literary Documents, 1856-1964 1969 anthology criticism biography prose correspondence
- The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 1994 single work novel
- Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall 1903 selected work poetry
- Henry Lawson 1985 selected work poetry autobiography prose short story
- Craft for a Dry Lake 2000 single work autobiography
- Remembering Babylon 1993 single work novel
- The Tree of Man 1955 single work novel
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