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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778381503321

Autore

Huggan Graham

Titolo

Australian Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, UK, 2007

ISBN

1-383-03635-7

1-281-15023-1

0-19-152802-1

1-4356-0993-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies In Postcolonial Literatures

Disciplina

820.9358

820.9994

Soggetti

Australian literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Racism in literature

Transnationalism in literature

Literature

Australian literature - History and criticism - 20th century

English Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Australian Timeline; 1 Australian Literature, Race, and the Politics of Location; 2 Beginning Again; 3 Interrogating Whiteness; 4 Multiculturalism and its Discontents; Afterword; Notes; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Graham Huggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this outstanding and sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world. - ;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 provoc