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y separately published work icon Bridging Imaginations : South Asian Diaspora in Australia anthology   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Bridging Imaginations : South Asian Diaspora in Australia
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Contents

* Contents derived from the New Delhi,
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India,
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South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,:Readworthy Publications , 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
White Shores of Longing : 'Impossible Subjects' and the Frontiers of Citizenship Impossible Threshold? Refugees, Diaspora and the Frontiers of Citizenship : Narrating Asylum Seeker Stories, Suvendrini Perera , single work criticism (p. 85-110)
'Another World, Another Future' : Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Amit Sarwal , single work criticism (p. 257-281)
Transformed in Australia : The Govinnage Remake, Gabriella Espak , Judit Polgari , single work criticism
The authors draw on Govinnage's short stories and poetry to demonstrate the ways in which the work of the Sri Lankan born writer 'reflects on issues of cultural identity, otherness, citizenship, and coexistence in the framework of Australian multiculturalism in the 1980s-1990s' (p. 282).
 (p. 282-311)
Australian Sunlight, Indian Shadows : 'The Time of the Peacock', Malati Mathur , single work criticism
Mathur writes: 'In their attempt to represent themselves and give voice to their ideas and feelings, Asian-Australian writers are turning the traditional image of the 'other' created by white Australian writers on its head. Their writing not only revises and subverts the hitherto white representation of mainstream writing but also is a way of writing back, a challenging of the stereotypical portrayal of Asians in mainstream literature. By doing this, Asian-Australian writers have inverted the gaze. By looking at themselves, asserting their own point of view, they are changing what had once been passive (object) into an active agent of change and speech (the subject)' (p. 316). The author goes on to demonstrate this through Mena Abdullah and Ray Mathew's In the Time of the Peacock.
 (p. 312-322)
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