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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Metapolitics vs. Identity Politics : (Re-)Radicalising the Postcolonial
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'Postcolonialism may be defined as a theoretical framework for reading and appreciating cultural production between normative Western "forms of social explanation" and "more complex cultural and political boundaries" that demarcate responses to this normativity (Bhabha 248) As such, this framework has been extremely beneficial for, among other things, introducing and highlighting the work of writers from non-Western cultural backgrounds, particularly Indigenous and multicultural or diasporic writers whose works convey conceptual and aesthetic themes and values at once foreign and responsive to Western European literary modalities. Thanks to postcolonial theory and associated methodologies, a very diverse range of writers from a host of cultural origins and locations has been accepted by and incorporated into most, if not all, Western academic and literary milieus.' (Authors' introduction.)

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    y separately published work icon Southerly The Political Imagination : Postcolonialism and Diaspora in Contemporary Australian Poetry vol. 73 no. 1 2013 6482077 2013 periodical issue 2013 pg. 57-74
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