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'These selected essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand literatures often, although not always, consider individual texts and literary authors within the postcolonial paradigm. They discuss some of the most prominent, mostly contemporary literary authors in these genres, including, for example, Margaret Attwood, C. K. Stead, Christopher Kosh, David Malouf, Richard Flanagan, Andrew Riemer, Ouyang Yu, A. D. Hope, Teju Cole from the USA, and others. Several studies focus on significant issues in recent diasporic and transcultural writing in English, including specific Slovenian literary production, while some of the essays examine the literary representations of a country in a particular national collective consciousness.' [From the back cover]
Contents
- Australia in the Habsburg Café: Andrew Riemer's Writing about Central Europe, single work criticism (p. 34-46)
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An Antipodean Byron? A. D. Hope's Vision of Australia Versus Europe or the Myth of Byronism
An Antipodean Byron? A. D. Hope's Affiliations with Lord Byron's Poetry,
single work
criticism
(p. 47-56)
Note: With title: An Antipodean Byron? A. D. Hope's Vision of Australia vs. Europe
- Christopher Koch's Literary Works, single work criticism (p. 57-60)
- Ouyang Yu's 'The Knightsbury Tales', single work criticism (p. 61-64)
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Slovenian Migrant Literature in Australia : An Overview with a Reading of the Work of Jože Žohar,
single work
criticism
(p. 65-85)Igor Maver provides a comprehensive overview of writing by Slovenian migrants to Australia. Maver, citing Milena Brgoč's Opisna bibliografija slovenskega tiska v Avstraliji, points out that over a hundred books have been published by Slovenian-heritage writers who live or have lived in Australia. The first part of Maver's article surveys literary production including that in journals and anthologies as well as books of poetry, novels, memoir and oral history; the second half provides a detailed analysis of three books of poetry by Jože Žohar.Note: With title: Slovenian Diasporic Literature in Australia and Its Main Achievements
- Australia and New Zealand through the Eyes of an Early Slovenian Travel Writer, single work criticism (p. 86-99)
- Representations of Slovenia in Mainstream Australian Literature, single work criticism (p. 100-105)
