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Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
Nathanael O'Reilly
(editor),
Youngstown
:
Cambria Press
,
2010
Z1748637
2010
anthology
criticism
'The primary objectives of the essay collection are to emphasize, highlight, and examine the postcolonial nature of Australian literature. Within postcolonial studies, literature from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean is often privileged, causing the literature of settler societies such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand to be ignored. This collection provides ample evidence that Australian literature is indeed postcolonial literature, that it deserves more recognition as such, and that postcolonial reading strategies provide immensely fruitful methods for analyzing Australian texts. Moreover, the collection seeks to fill a gap in postcolonial studies.
Essay collections focusing on the postcolonial nature of national and regional literatures have previously been published; however, Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature is the first collection to focus exclusively on Australian literature as postcolonial literature and the first collection of essays on Australian literature in which all the contributors write from a postcolonial theoretical perspective. It is thus a groundbreaking work that makes an important contribution to both Australian literary studies and postcolonial studies.'Narrow definitions of "postcolonial" that exclude settler colonies such as Australia not only serve to marginalize rich bodies of literature and literary criticism, they also ignore and/or obscure the fact that there are many kinds of postcolonialism, many types of postcolonial societies, and many ways for texts to be postcolonial. Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature, as a body of work, insists that Australian literature is postcolonial literature and deserves equal status with the literature of other postcolonial nations' (Publisher website).
Youngstown : Cambria Press , 2010 pg. 41-54
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Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
Nathanael O'Reilly
(editor),
Youngstown
:
Cambria Press
,
2010
Z1748637
2010
anthology
criticism
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- A Sydney-Side Saxon 1888 single work novel
- Patrick White : A Bibliography 2004 single work bibliography
- The Alienated Australian Intellectual 1963 single work criticism
- Michael Dransfield : A Retrospective 2002 selected work poetry
- The Ethics of Abjection: Patrick White's `Riders in the Chariot' 1997 single work criticism
- Between the City and the Bush: Suburbia in the Contemporary Australian Novel 2008 single work thesis
- Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction 1989 single work criticism
- The Aunt's Story 1948 single work novel
- Riders in the Chariot 1961 single work novel
- The Solid Mandala 1966 single work novel
- The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel
- Patrick White 1993 single work criticism