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Notes:Part of this chapter was originally published in Konversionen. Fremderfahrungen in ethnologischer und interkultureller Perspektive, ed. DÄRMANN, Iris, Steffi HOBUß, Ulrich LÖLKE (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2004)
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Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture
Heidelberg
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Winter Verlag
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2011
Z1819744
2011
selected work
criticism
'How can contemporary Australian literature and culture be ‘imagined’ from abroad? What particular refractions may emerge out of an expatriate reflection upon Antipodean literature and culture? This collection of essays summarizes fifteen years’ work done from an explicitly European perspective. The unashamedly outside perspective these essays present envisages a largely ‘imaginary Antipodes’ whose character is regarded from four distinct angles: indigenous literary production, white settler identities, migrant destinies, and the global construction of Australian literature, thereby gesturing towards the transnational perspective that furnishes the framing rationale for the collection itself.
The thirteen essays range over a broad selection of literary and filmic texts, from classics such as Patrick White and Crocodile Dundee, via Castro, Davison, Fremd, Gooneratne, Grenville, Hall, Hospital, Lawrence, McGahan, Malouf, Martin, Morgan, Scott, Teo, or Yasbincek, through to wider issues such as indigenous poetry, the post-Mabo ‘history wars’ of the 1990s, and the global translation of Australian literature' (Publisher blurb).
Heidelberg
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Winter Verlag
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2011
pg.
71-86
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Subjects:
- After The Dreaming : The 1968 Boyer Lectures 1969 single work criticism
- Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770- 1975 1978 single work criticism
- Uncanny Australia : Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation 1998 selected work criticism
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- Remembering Babylon 1993 single work novel
- The Second Bridegroom 1991 single work novel
- The White Woman 1994 single work novel
- The Artist Is a Thief 2001 single work novel
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