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* Contents derived from the 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Not the M-Word Again : Rhetoric and Silence in Recent Multiculturalism Debates,
single work
essay
Ommundsen examines some of the many uses (and abuses) of the term multiculturalism. She defines several models relating to the way this term operates in popular public discourse. The models, which are sometimes overlapping and sometimes in opposition, include: sentimental multiculturalism, folkloric or touristic multiculturalism, sophisticated cosmopolitanism, cultural preservation and 'ethnic ghettoes', cultural assimilation, reverse racism, politically or economically expedient multiculturalism, and 'the empty signifier,' where multiculturalism becomes 'nothing but a rhetorical gesture...a void, a silence'.
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Of a Class,
single work
essay
A meditation on class, on the author's family and their migration to Australia, and on living in Melbourne.
- Welcome to Werribeei"Come on down to Werribee, we've got", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Covering One's Tracks: Desert Roads from Memory to Fable, single work criticism (p. 24-28)
- The Chinese Poet's Visit, single work biography (p. 29-33)
- Untitled (from Poems of Chance)i"I've kinned a younger version of the Generation X", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Untitledi"So: always liked those Chinese Poets", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Untitledi"My voice bellowing and yours high, duets", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Untitled (from poems of Chance)i"With their door-to-door religion and shiny bikes,", single work poetry (p. 35)
- Contemporary Australian Poetry: a prejudiced biased account, single work criticism (p. 36-40)
- Americai"The thing that worries me most", single work autobiography poetry (p. 41-49)
- Working Class Heroes? Les Murray vs Pi O, single work criticism (p. 50-54)
- Hotel Martello, single work short story (p. 55-58)
- The Semi-Detached Man, single work short story (p. 59-62)
- Keys, single work short story (p. 63)
- What Can the Reader Do?, single work criticism (p. 69-75)
- Barbara's Storyi"I liked the women I worked with", single work poetry (p. 78)
- Before My Dad's Back Got Hurti"We used to go places, but now we hardly ever go", single work poetry (p. 78)
- Work Care Clipsi"I who once roared as loud as the lion", single work poetry (p. 80)
- Trauma Shocki"A sudden horrific shock", single work poetry (p. 83)
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