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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Against Multiculturalism : Rhetorical Images
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Sneja Gunew responds to Dessaix's article by way of four concepts: host, guest/parasite, contagion and disease/noise. She writes: 'In Australia those who occupy the host's chair operate according to the time-honoured imperialist principle that possession is nine-tenths of the law. Those other displaced ones, guests by definition, are anxiety-provoking reminders of the unstable status of their hosts' (35).

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