Australian Literature Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism

• Main Author: Huggan, Graham
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Series: Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures; Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
• Subjects: 20th century; Australasian & Pacific history; Australasian and Pacific History; Australia; Australia & New Zealand; Australian literature; General history of other areas Australia; HISTORY; History and criticism; In literature; Intellectual life; LITERARY CRITICISM; Literary Studies - World; Literary studies: general; Literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Racism in literature; Transnationalism in literature; True crime

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provocative contribution to the series, Graham Huggan presents...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Australian Timeline -- 1 Australian Literature, Race, and the Politics of Location -- 1.1 Locating Australian literature -- 1.2 New racisms and culture wars -- 1.3 Postcolonial approaches -- 2 Beginning Again -- 2.1 Some reflections on literary history -- 2.2 Founding fictions -- 3 Interrogating Whiteness -- 3.1 Whiteness and core culture -- 3.2 Extra/ordinary whiteness -- 3.3 Shades of white -- 4 Multiculturalism and its Discontents -- 4.1 Demidenko, before and after -- 4.2 Discrepant multiculturalisms -- 4.3 Demystifying 'Asia' -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y