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Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing

Author : Janet Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135133543X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing written by Janet Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding new transnational and transcultural critical frameworks of such syncretic writing, the contributors collectively examine how the varied and diverse body of Asian Australian literary work intervenes into contemporary representational politics and culture. The book questions, for instance, the ideology of Australian multiculturalism; the core/periphery hierarchy; the perpetuation of Orientalist attitudes and stereotypes; and white Australian claims to belong as seen in its myths of cultural authenticity and authority. Ranging in critical analyses from the historic first Chinese-Australian novel to contemporary award winning Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and Filipino Australian novels, the book provides an inside view of the ways in which Asian Australian literary work is reshaping Australian mainstream literature, politics and culture, and in the wider context, the world literary scene. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Citizenship, Law and Literature

Author : Caroline Koegler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110749831
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship, Law and Literature written by Caroline Koegler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.

Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466398
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and precarity are among the most pressing social issues of today and have become a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in the humanities in the last two decades. This volume brings together an international group of scholars who investigate conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics. Analysing literature, visual arts and news media from across the postcolonial world, they aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact affective and ethical responses to disenfranchised groups and precarious subjects. Case studies focus on intersections between precarity and race, class, and gender, institutional frameworks of publishing, environmental precarity, and the framing of refugees and migrants as precarious subjects. Contributors: Clelia Clini, Geoffrey V. Davis, Dorothee Klein, Sue Kossew, Maryam Mirza, Anna Lienen, Julia Hoydis, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Malcolm Sen, Jan Rupp, J.U. Jacobs, Julian Wacker, Andreas Musolff, Janet M. Wilson

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651448X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel written by Nicholas Birns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Author : Jessica Gildersleeve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000281701
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature written by Jessica Gildersleeve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.

Growing Up Asian in Australia

Author : Alice Pung
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458798682
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Asian in Australia written by Alice Pung and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian - Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award - winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner - table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great - grandfather's Chinese village. Here are well - known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat - Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.

Banana Bending

Author : Tseen-Ling Khoo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571108
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Banana Bending written by Tseen-Ling Khoo and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-07-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian writers exist within the realities of specific national contexts that are not necessarily bypassed by configurations of the diasporic community. Tseen-Ling Khoo shows that Asian-Canadian and Asian-Australian literatures are developing in dissimilar ways because of demographic and geographical differences, the degree of governmental intervention through cultural policy initiatives, and the levels of encouragement or financial support for racial minority authors and their work. Khoo exposes the particularities of literary development within specific historical bases through comparative critiques of Asian-Canadian and Asian-Australian texts and argues that the questions of whether authors of Asian descent writing in the western world are adding to national canons or creating subversive (but marginalized) streams will remain as long as binary demarcations prevail. Khoo contends that literary criticism should see racial minority literatures as existing in both categories at once, thus shifting the boundaries of what constitutes a national canon as well as posing challenges to the literary status quo.

Diasporic Poetics

Author : Timothy Yu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198867654
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Diasporic Poetics written by Timothy Yu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writing to establish what 'diasporic poetics' might be held in common.

Creative Lives

Author : Chandani Ringrose, Chris Lokuge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838215443
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Creative Lives written by Chandani Ringrose, Chris Lokuge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian Diasporic Writing—poetry, fiction literary theory, and drama by writers from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka now living in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA—is one of the most vibrant areas of contemporary world literature. In this volume, twelve acclaimed writers from this tradition are interviewed by experts in the field about their political, thematic, and personal concerns as well as their working methods and the publishing scene. The book also includes an authoritative introduction to the field, and essays on each writer and interviewer. The interviewers and interviewees are: Alexandra Watkins, Michelle de Kretser, Homi Bhabha, Klaus Stierstorfer, Amit Chaudhuri, Pavan Malreddy, Rukhsana Ahmad, Maryam Mirza, Shankari Chandran, Birte Heidemann, Neel Mukherjee, Anjali Joseph, Chris Ringrose, Michelle Cahill, Rajith Savanadasa, Mariam Pirbhai, Maryam Mirza, Mridula Koshy, Sehba Sarwar, Dr Angela Savage, Sulari Gentill.

Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888-1988

Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969649
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888-1988 written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese American Literature without Borders

Author : King-Kok Cheung
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137441771
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Chinese American Literature without Borders written by King-Kok Cheung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers’ formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” country and to look homeward without blinders.

Diasporic Poetics

Author : Timothy Yu (Professor of literature)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191904424
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Diasporic Poetics written by Timothy Yu (Professor of literature) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text advances a new concept of the 'Asian diaspora' that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities. Drawing from comparable studies of the black diaspora, it traces the histories of colonialism, immigration, and exclusion shared by these three populations.

The Stories of Yarra

Author : Aus Chinese Writers Association Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645787504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Yarra written by Aus Chinese Writers Association Inc and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth collection of the Aus Chinese Writers Association Inc?ACWA?is a literary work full of passion and contemplation, showcasing the talents and ideas of the writers and injecting new energy into cultural exchange and cooperation between China and Australia.The collection comprises 83 works from 35 authors, divided into three parts: the Yarra section, the Reflection section, and the Invited section, covering various literary genres such as poetry, novels, and essays, and showcasing a colourful and diverse world of Chinese-Australian literature, ranging from cultural history to social reality, from humanistic landscapes to natural ecology.In the Yarra section, the writers use poetic language to depict the cityscapes and cultural history of Yarra, showcasing the integration and recognition of Chinese writers into Australian culture. In describing the Yarra district, the association's writers have discovered many unique features, such as the development of graffiti art and the exploration of murals in the city, which not only embody Australia's multiculturalism but also provide inspiration for the writers' creations.In the Reflection section, the association's writers cover a wide range of topics, including reflections on Chinese culture and society, as well as observations and evaluations of Australian society and culture. They criticize and reflect on the policies of the Australian government and political parties while also calling for more attention to refugee issues and providing them with more help and support. In terms of art and life, the association's writers review and look ahead to life, study, and work in Australia, as well as exploring the profound natural ecology and aesthetics of Australia.The Invited section showcases articles by some of China's contemporary famous writers, with fluent writing and unique perspectives, expressing their unique views and understanding of Chinese culture and the overseas world. These articles not only enrich the literary content of the collection but also provide new ideas and impetus for cultural exchange and cooperation between China and Australia.It is hoped that this collection can attract more attention and love for Chinese culture.

Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific

Author : Chin Ee Loh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351968807
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific written by Chin Ee Loh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continual rise of English as a global lingua franca has meant that English literature, both as a discipline and as a tool in ESL and EFL classrooms, is being used in varied ways outside the inner circle of English. This edited collection provides an overview of English literature education in the Asia-Pacific in global times, bringing to international attention a rich understanding of the trends, issues and challenges specific to nations within the Asia-Pacific region. Comprising contributions from Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam, the collection addresses the diversity of learners in different national, cultural and teaching contexts. In doing so, it provides insights into historical and current trends in literature education, foregrounds specific issues and challenges in policymaking and implementation, presents practical matters concerning text selection, use of literature in the language classroom, innovative practices in literature education, and raises pressing and important questions about the nature, purpose and importance of literature education in global times.

Border-Crossing Japanese Literature

Author : Akiko Uchiyama
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000917932
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Border-Crossing Japanese Literature written by Akiko Uchiyama and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of ‘Japan’, they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. The authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan. Several chapters examine the work of exemplary border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner-of-war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature.

The Semblance of Identity

Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804783705
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Semblance of Identity written by Christopher Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity. Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent composite figure that he calls the "idealized critical subject," which provides coherence to oppositional knowledge projects and political practices. He reframes identity as an aesthetic figure that tries to articulate the subjective conditions for knowledge. Harnessing Theodor Adorno's notion of aesthetic semblance, Lee offers an alternative account of identity as a figure akin to modern artwork. Like art, Lee argues, identity provides access to imagined worlds that in turn wage a critique of ongoing histories and realities of racialization. This book assembles a transnational archive of literary texts by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa, revealing the intersections of subjectivity and representation, and drawing our attention to their limits.

Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators

Author : Sneja Gunew
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086645
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators written by Sneja Gunew and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard’s concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the elements within multiculturalism that have been forgotten in its contemporary denigration. Gunew attaches this discussion to debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade, creating a framework for re-evaluating post-multicultural and Indigenous writers in settler colonies such as Canada and Australia. She links these writers with transnational writers across diasporas from Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, China and India to construct a new framework for literary and cultural studies.