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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 ‘No Better or Worse than Anyone, but an Equal’ : Negotiating Mutuality in Adib Khan’s 'Seasonal Adjustments'
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In this article, after a brief consideration of the limitations revolving around South Asian Australian writers as an under-researched literary category, I use Riane Eisler’s partnership and dominator models to explore the complexities of cultural belonging, seen as a new narrative of unique experience, through which a distinctive transcultural identity is fluidly forged beyond the expectations and ideals of dominant nationalist cultures and traditions. By particularly focusing on Adib Khan’s novel Seasonal Adjustments, this analysis suggests that his migrant identity should be understood as a dialectical ever-growing process, enabling him to link cultural differences as transcultural global constants. [Author's abstract]

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  • Epigraph: One of the most urgent predicaments of our time can be described in deceptively simple terms: how are we to live together in this new century—this century that has begun so sadly, so violently? (Ang 141)

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    y separately published work icon JASAL Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; Transnational Imaginaries: Reading Asian Australian Writing vol. 12 no. 2 Wenche Ommundsen (editor), 2012 Z1916644 2012 periodical issue A special issue based on papers presented at the September 2011 Asian Australian Writing Workshop at the University of Wollongong. 2012
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