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Publisher's blurb: 'The twenty-seven essays in this volume are the product of the Ninth Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region held in Singapore in December 1999. The contributions explore complicitous interactions between cultures, nations and people in the Asia-Pacific Region. Grouped into three sections of "Asia-Pacific Relations", "The Politics of Identity" and "Language, Gender and Empowerment", these essays examine selected texts form countries which include Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Micronesia.'
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* Contents derived from the
Berne,
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Switzerland,c
Western Europe,
Europe,:Peter Lang
, 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.- Singapore and Australia : Collaborators, single work criticism (p. 27-42)
- The Scared Who Want to Scare : Fear of a Japanese Invasion in Australian Literature, single work criticism (p. 43-51)
- Nationalism and Imperialism : Australia's Ambivalent Relationship to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, single work criticism (p. 53-63)
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Old Walls and New : The Australian Poet in the Asia-Pacific,
single work
criticism
(p. 65-76)Examines issues surrounding the writing of poetry by Australians who lived and travelled in the Asia-Pacific region. A particular focus is on tracing the tension between Australian cultural nationalism and the fact of being 'elsewhere'.
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Adolescence and the Post-65 Generation : Colin Cheong's The Stolen Child.,
single work
criticism
(p. 149-155)
The author observes the generation of Singaporeans born around or since the time of Singapore's Independence as staging a new challenge to the state's pedagogic nationalism, experiencing a decussation of belonging/conformism and individualism/rebellion which is expressed in the novelisation of melancholia and guilt.
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The Fabrication of Ukrainian-Australian Identity by Helen Darville,
single work
criticism
(p. 215-222)Discusses Darville's literary hoax in the context of Ukrainian-Australian writers and writing.
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Literature and the Intellectualisation of Langaue through Language Policy and Planning,
single work
criticism
(p. 251-260)'Language policy and planning has been used by governments in the Asia-Pacific Region to develop local languages for use as national languages as a means of promoting national unity and an indigenous world view... The role of literature is an important part of this intellectualisation of local languages and in the process re-intellectualisation of English for local use.' (p. 258)
- "Now where's she off to" : Gender and Class in the Poetry of Bruce Dawe, single work criticism (p. 261-272)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Untitled
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , May vol. 42 no. 1 2006; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Complicities : Connections and Divisions : Perspectives on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region 2003 anthology criticism ; The Circle and the Spiral : A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature 2004 multi chapter work criticism
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Untitled
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , May vol. 42 no. 1 2006; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Complicities : Connections and Divisions : Perspectives on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region 2003 anthology criticism ; The Circle and the Spiral : A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature 2004 multi chapter work criticism
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