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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. 203-218
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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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- The Well 1986 single work novel
- National Hauntings: The Architecture of Australian Ghost Stories 2007 single work criticism
- Women Off the Market: Possession and Desire in Elizabeth Jolley's `The Well' 1993 single work criticism
- Elizabeth Jolley 2007 single work obituary
- Arresting Metaphors : Anti-Colonial Females in Australian Cinema 2005 single work criticism
- What is Post(-)Colonialism? 1991 single work criticism
- Narrative Strategies in Elizabeth Jolley's "The Well" and African Folktales 1993 single work criticism
- Inscribing the Emptiness : Cartography, Exploration and the Construction of Australia 1994 single work criticism
- Sexual Gothic : Marian Engel's "Bear" and Elizabeth Jolley's "The Well" 1995 single work criticism
- A Conversation with Elizabeth Jolley 1989 single work biography interview