Migrant nation : Australian culture, society and identity / edited by Paul Longley Arthur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arthur, Paul Longley, editor.

Series:

Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia--Emigration and immigration.

Australia.

Emigration and immigration.

Australia--Civilization.

Civilization.

National characteristics, Australian.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

vi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2018.

Summary:

Focusing on particular historical blind spots by telling stories of individuals and groups that did not fit the favoured identity mould, the essays in Migrant Nation work within the gap between Australian image and experience and offer fresh insights into the 'other' side of identity construction. The volume casts light on the hidden face of Australian identity and remembers the experiences of a wide variety of people who have generally been excluded, neglected or simply forgotten in the long-running quest to tell a unified story of Australian culture and identity. Drawing upon memories, letters, interviews and documentary fragments, as well as rich archives, the authors have in common a commitment to give life to neglected histories and thus to include, in an expanding and open-ended national narrative, people who were cast as strangers in the place that was their home. Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture publishes quality, innovative research that advances contemporary scholarship on Australian literature conceived historically, thematically and/or conceptually. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Transcultural Studies in Australian Identity 1

2 Remembering Aboriginal Sydney 21

3 Files and Aboriginal Lives: Biographies from an Archive 37

4 Writing, Femininity and Colonialism: Judith Wright, Hélène Cixous and Marie Cardinal 57

5 The Staging of Social Policy: The Photographing of Post-War British Child Migrants 69

6 Writing Home from China: Charles Allen's Transnational Childhood 91

7 Australian? Autobiography? Citizenship, Postnational Self-Identity and the Politics of Belonging 119

8 A Nikkei Australian Story: Legacy of the Pacific War 137

9 Displaced Persons (1947-52) in Australia: Memory in Autobiography 151

10 Between Utopia and Autobiography: Migrant Narratives in Australia 177

11 Vietnamese Australian Life Writing and Integration: The Magazine for Multicultural and Vietnamese Issues 201

12 Heroes, Legends and Divas: Framing Famous Lives in Australia 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

178308720X

9781783087204

OCLC:

1019809245