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Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
Nathanael O'Reilly
(editor),
Youngstown
:
Cambria Press
,
2010
Z1748637
2010
anthology
criticism
'The primary objectives of the essay collection are to emphasize, highlight, and examine the postcolonial nature of Australian literature. Within postcolonial studies, literature from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean is often privileged, causing the literature of settler societies such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand to be ignored. This collection provides ample evidence that Australian literature is indeed postcolonial literature, that it deserves more recognition as such, and that postcolonial reading strategies provide immensely fruitful methods for analyzing Australian texts. Moreover, the collection seeks to fill a gap in postcolonial studies.
Essay collections focusing on the postcolonial nature of national and regional literatures have previously been published; however, Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature is the first collection to focus exclusively on Australian literature as postcolonial literature and the first collection of essays on Australian literature in which all the contributors write from a postcolonial theoretical perspective. It is thus a groundbreaking work that makes an important contribution to both Australian literary studies and postcolonial studies.'Narrow definitions of "postcolonial" that exclude settler colonies such as Australia not only serve to marginalize rich bodies of literature and literary criticism, they also ignore and/or obscure the fact that there are many kinds of postcolonialism, many types of postcolonial societies, and many ways for texts to be postcolonial. Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature, as a body of work, insists that Australian literature is postcolonial literature and deserves equal status with the literature of other postcolonial nations' (Publisher website).
Youngstown : Cambria Press , 2010 pg. 93-107
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Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
Nathanael O'Reilly
(editor),
Youngstown
:
Cambria Press
,
2010
Z1748637
2010
anthology
criticism
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- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature : Migrant Metaphors 1995 multi chapter work criticism
- The Narcissism of Distance - Australia and the Rhetoric of Extension 1994 single work criticism
- The Water Dreamers : The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent 2009 single work prose
- The Road to Botany Bay : An Essay in Spatial History 1987 single work criticism
- My Brilliant Career 1901 single work novel
- A History of Australian Literature 1986 single work criticism
- Capricornia : A Novel 1938 single work novel
- A Fantasy of Man : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1901-1922 1984 selected work poetry short story autobiography correspondence
- The Miracle 2000 single work short story
- Antipodes : Stories 1985 selected work short story
- Poems 1959-1989 1992 selected work poetry
- Remembering Babylon 1993 single work novel
- David Malouf and Languages for Landscape : An Interview 1994 single work interview
- Recuperative Strategies in the Post-Colonial Novel 1987 single work criticism
- Plains of Promise 1997 single work novel