Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature

TRAMA

The contemporary study of Australian literature, as befitting that of a country that has been at the forefront of postcolonial studies, is a highly self-conscious and theoreticized enterprise, carried on by academics across the globe and not just Australians concerned with asserting their national identity as used to be the case. This volume deals with issues such as the tensions between literary and cultural studies, indigenous autobiography, postcolonial nostalgia, masculinity, the placing of Australia in the Pacific and in Asia, the uses of Australian literature in the United States, and includes the considerations of such widely-studied authors as Mudrooroo, Peter Carey and Patrick White.

NOTE EDITORE

The contemporary study of Australian literature ranges widely across issues of general cultural studies, the politics of identity (both ethnic and gendered), and the position of Australia within wider postcolonial contexts. This volume intervenes in the most significant of issues in these areas from a variety of international perspectives.

SOMMARIO

Chapter 1 Australian Literary Studies Bushwhacked?, David Callahan; Chapter 2 Cyberspace and Oz Lit, Ruth Brown; Chapter 3 Ethnic Autobiography and the Cult of Authenticity, Graham Huggan; Chapter 4 Melancholy in Mudrooroo’s Dr Wooreddy’s Prescription, Anne Maxwell; Chapter 5 Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves, Briar Wood; Chapter 6 Misogyny, Muscles and Machines, Rebecca Johinke; Chapter 7 May in September, Nicholas Birns; Chapter 8 From European Satellite to Asian Backwater?, Lars Jensen; Chapter 9 Australia in Oceania, Juniper Ellis;

AUTORE

David Callahan

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780714652375
• Dimensioni: 8.5 x 5.5 in Ø 0.85 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 190