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‘This Story Does Not Begin on a Boat’ : What Is Australian about Asian Australian Writing?
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2011
‘This Story Does Not Begin on a Boat’ : What Is Australian about Asian Australian Writing?
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'With reference to recent debates about the politics of representation, this paper argues that a profound ambivalence about identity, and particularly about Asian Australian identity, is a common characteristic of much recent Asian Australian literary writing. It also asks whether this is the characteristic that marks this writing as specifically Australian. Tracing cultural contexts from the 'pathologies' of Australian multicultural debates to other transnational literary traditions, the paper uses examples from the writing of Brian Castro, Alice Pung, Ouyang Yu, Nam Le, Shaun Tan, and Tom Cho to speculate on the emergence of a new and distinct phase of transnational writing in Australia.' (Author's abstract)
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‘This Story Does Not Begin on a Boat’ : What Is Australian about Asian Australian Writing?
Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
Subjects:
- Birds of Passage 1983 single work novel
- Writing Asia and Auto/biography : Two Lectures 1995 selected work biography criticism
- Look Who's Morphing 2009 selected work short story
- The Boat 2008 selected work short story
- Unpolished Gem 2006 single work autobiography
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