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Dedication: For my father, with love.
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Serving in the Indian Diaspora : The Transnational Domestic Servant in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
2019
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criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 55 no. 1 2019; (p. 108-120)'While substantial attention has been paid to the depiction of racial and cultural othering experienced by middle-class female Indian immigrants in the Global North, this article grapples with a rare figure in the fiction of the Indian diaspora: a female immigrant employed as a live-in domestic worker. By focusing on the novel Jasmine (1989) by Bharati Mukherjee and two short stories, “A Pocket Full of Stories” (2009) by Sujatha Fernandes and “Almost Valentine’s Day” (2014) by Mridula Koshy, the article examines how these divergent representations of domestic servitude complicate prevailing interpretations of the Indian diasporic experience, particularly by requiring an engagement with the complex intersection of class, race and gendered identities. Moreover, as this article demonstrates, with their contrasting ideological underpinnings, the three works compel readers to revisit the myth and reality of upward social mobility, and to reconceptualize the meaning of integration and exclusion in a transnational context.' (Publication abstract)
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From Cosmopolitanism to Planetary Conviviality : Suneeta Peres da Costa and Michelle de Kretser
2017
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— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 22 2017; (p. 84-94)'Veronica Brady, vigorous supporter of Aboriginal causes and deeply concerned with social-injustice issues, underlined that Anglo-Australians were to be excommunicated from the land until they would come to terms with it and its first peoples (in Jones 1997). Nearly twenty years after this statement was postulated, it is my purpose in this paper to look at the land from an Anglo-Australian and non-Indigenous Australian perspective in order to assess if Australian contemporary society has moved beyond what Brady considered a “super ego status” and reconciled to the presence not only of its Indigenous, but also its non-Indigenous others. To do so I will exemplify novels which are part of and influenced by the matrix of relations and social forces in which non-indigenous Australian writers are situated on, including Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework (1999) and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2013).'
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Diaspora, Displacement and Assimilation : Suneeta Peres Da Costa and Bem Le Hunte's Indo-Australian Fiction
2016
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criticism
— Appears in: Narratives of Estrangement and Belonging : Indo-Australian Perspectives 2016; (p. 277-284)'Today, the ethnic minority and integration discourse of the 1980s and earlier, has been replaced by the diaspora dialogue. This has led to a significant paradigm shift in all facets of studies connected with communities who have left their native countries ans settled in new ones. Australia, with its multiethnic population has its own share of narratives of estrangement and belonging.' (277)
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There Goes the Neighbourhood! : The Indian-Subcontinental in the Asian / Australian Literary Precinct
2012
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— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 2 2012; This paper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the nature of Asian Australian Writing, a debate that started sometime circa 2000s and seems to have gathered some force with the putative rise of global Asia. In its early stages, the referent for this academic debate was Asian-American Studies and whether or not it made sense for such a trans-Atlantic term to be applied to the Antipodean region. In the last decade, Australia’s position within the Asian geo-political region has been increasingly articulated with respect to bilateral exchange with its immediate neighbours, mainly in the arena of trade and security. Writing this essay in 2012, it seems that the two strands, the academic and the geographical, have strategically merged to define the parametres of Asian Australian Writing. [First paragraph of the article] -
Locating Indo-Australian Fiction in Multicultural Australia
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 137-157)
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Forecasts: Homework
1999
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— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 12 July vol. 246 no. 28 1999; (p. 74-75)
— Review of Homework 1999 single work novel -
Untitled
1999
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— Appears in: Booklist , 15 September vol. 96 no. 2 1999; (p. 234)
— Review of Homework 1999 single work novel -
Unravelling Families to Make Stories
1999
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 October 1999; (p. 22)
— Review of Firehead 1999 single work novel ; Homework 1999 single work novel -
A Palpable Hit
1999
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 213 1999; (p. 28-29)
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Putting Out Feelers
1999
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 August 1999; (p. 14)
— Review of Homework 1999 single work novel -
Re-Thinking Marginality : Class, Identity and Desire in Contemporary Australian Writing
2004
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— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 1 2004; (p. 45-68) -
Disrupting the Past: Magical Realism and Historical Revision in Australian Fiction
2006
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— Appears in: Sharing Spaces : Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights 2006; (p. 69-85) -
Some Reflections on Selected Writings by Indian Writers in Australia
2005
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— Appears in: Diaspora : The Australasian Experience 2005; (p. 169-176) This short article provides a comparative analysis of the works listed. Dhawan concludes that the differences depicted in the literary works examined (which he reads as largely autobiographical) override any superficial similarities, regardless of the fact that each of the Australian-born writers has their 'original base-inheritance' in India. -
Launching a List
1999
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column
— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 8 March vol. 246 no. 10 1999; (p. 16) In this brief column, Baker comments on the books 'signed' by Karen Rinaldi, the then new editorial director at Bloomsbury, USA. These include Homework, which appears, in this column, under the working title: 'Song from the Brink of Solitude'. -
Re-Writing Suburbia
2002
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— Appears in: M/C Journal , May vol. 5 no. 2 2002; 'In Re-writing Suburbia, Emily Bullock brings that often rejected space to bear on considerations of the urban. Tying the suburban to dreams of home ownership and to dreams of nationness, Bullock finds in Suneeta Peres da Costa's recent novel Homework a textual space that subverts the suburban Australian dream without re-invigorating the urban-suburban binary.' [From 'Editorial: The Issue of the Urban,' by Laurie Johnson and Shelley Kulperger, which opens this issue of M/C Journal]
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