Australian literature : postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism / Graham Huggan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huggan, Graham, 1958- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Australian literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Racism in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

Australia--Intellectual life--20th century.

Australia.

Australia--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-177) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03635-7

1-281-15023-1

0-19-152802-1

1-4356-0993-X

OCLC:

476240067