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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Literary Migrations : White, English-Speaking Migrant Writers in Australia
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'In this thesis, I am arguing that [a] false core/periphery binary has made a particular group of migrants ,-those who are white and have migrated from English-speaking countries - invisible - invisible as migrants, that is. For the writers within this group, this leads to a critical blindness in relation to their work and place within Australian national literature. As a critic, however, I look at the work of Ruth Park, Alex Miller and John Mateer and see it is profoundly influenced by their migrant experience. More often than not they write about themes that are typical of migrant writing: alienation, identity, belonging, home, being in-between cultures, history. For a more appropriate, complete appreciation of their work, this thesis argues that it is imperative to go back to the beginning and return the 'default setting' of migrant to its literal meaning.' [From the author's abstract]

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      Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,: 2011 .
      Link: U22436Web resource Sighted: 16/05/2012
      Extent: 294p.
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Subjects:
  • 1960s
  • 2000-2010
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • 1970s
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