Un-Australian fictions : nation, multiculture(alism) and globalisation, 1988-2008 / by Eleni Pavlides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pavlides, Eleni, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Australian fiction.

Australian fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

National characteristics, Australian, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Un-Australian Fictions sets out to analyse a subset of Australian literary fictions published between 1988 and 2008 - from the bicentenary of British settlement to the global financial crisis and into a new millennium. During a new transnational era, Australians faced sober and unsettling times. Already accorded the status of national obsession, issues of national identity were vigorously contested. Concepts such as the nation, multiculturalism and globalisation became topics for heated discu...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION; PART 1: POST-WARMIGRATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS; CHAPTER TWO - MULTICULTURAL TEXTS IN THE 1990's; CHAPTER THREE - READING NATION IN THE 90's; PART 2: QUEER AND EUROPEAN JOURNEYS; CHAPTER FOUR - THE QUEER AND EUROPEAN JOURNEY OF ROBERT DESSAIX AND NIGHT LETTERS; CHAPTER FIVE - THE QUEER AND EUROPEAN JOURNEY OF CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS AND DEAD EUROPE; PART 3: UNSETTLED HISTORIES AND UNSTABLE GEOGRAPHIES; CHAPTER SIX - BURDENED BY HISTORY; CHAPTER SEVEN - RE-SITING THE YELLOW LADY

CHAPTER EIGHT - TRANSNATIONAL AND UNCANNY CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6590-7

OCLC:

887508344