1 edition of Postcolonial issues in Australian literature found in the catalog.
Postcolonial issues in Australian literature
Nathanael O"Reilly
Published
2010
by Cambria Press in Amherst, NY
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | edited by Nathanael O"Reilly |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR9609.6 .P67 2010 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL25000986M |
| ISBN 10 | 9781604977110 |
| LC Control Number | 2010020694 |
Postcolonialism By definition, postcolonialism is a period of time after colonialism, and postcolonial literature is typically characterized by its opposition to the colonial. He is the author of Exploring Suburbia: The Suburbs in the Contemporary Australian Novel (Teneo Press, ); editor of Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (Cambria Press, ); editor of New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham (UWAP, ); co-editor of Tim Winton: Critical Essays (UWAP, ); and author of five collections of poetry.
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature. In addition, most postcolonial problems have roots in the colonial era. There is also a debate about the question of whether people can draw productive generalizations across the borders of nation, race and imperial context. On the one hand, postcolonialism refers to the alleged end of colonialism as well as the beginning of a new historical.
(A comprehensive introduction to post-colonial theory and practice, dealing with issues of language (English versus english), identity, marginality, and the connection of post-colonialism with feminism, modernism and postmodernism — all on a very basic level). - The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature: Volume I Edited by Ato Quayson Frontmatter More information 9. Postcolonialism and Arab literature MUHSIN AL-MUSAWI Postcolonialism and postcolonial writing in Latin America (a) Postcolonialism and Latin American writing, – FRANCISCO A. ORTEGA.
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Introduction: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (Nathanael O’Reilly) Chapter 1: Reading Post-Colonial Australia (Bill Ashcroft) Chapter 2: Jack Lindsay, Patrick White, and Postcolonial Medievalism (Nicholas Birns) Chapter 3: The Postcolonial Nature of an Australian Regional Literature.
The challenges and benefits of raising postcolonial issues in Australian literature has been long argued by academics such as Helen Tiffin, Bill Ashcroft, Graham Huggan, Alan Lawson and me, among many others, but no mirror-set of Australian texts has yet been : Victoria Kuttainen.
Review of The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature This is a well-intentioned and sometimes well-written study, a book that one wants to like, coming as it does from a place that has not.
This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere.
Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature presents thirteen new essays that address many of the numerous ways in which Australian literature is postcolonial and can be read using postcolonial reading strategies.1 The collection addresses a wide variety of Australian texts produced from theFile Size: KB.
Postcolonial Theory, Australian Indigenous Studies and ‘Knowing’ ‘the Aborigine’ Barry Judd Introduction As a scholar from an Aboriginal background who is deeply embedded in the western academe and its claims to universal truth, in this chapter I consider the possibility that Australian Indigenous studies may simply function to re-inscribeFile Size: KB.
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He holds PhD form Westem Michigan University, specializing in Australian, postcolonial, and modern British. Nathanael O’Reilly, ed. Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature.
Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, A postcolonial approach to Australian literature, he suggests, is more than just a case for a more inclusive nationalism; it also involves a general acknowledgement of the nation's changed relationship to an increasingly globalized world.
As such, the book helps to deprovincialize Australian literary : Graham Huggan. Postcolonial fiction writers deal with the traditional colonial discourse, either by modifying or by subverting it, or both. Postcolonial literary theory re-examines colonial and postcolonial literature, especially concentrating upon the social discourse between the colonizer and the colonized that shaped and produced the literature.
In Orientalism (), Edward Said analyzed the fiction of. Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra. Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the.
Postcolonial Mind McClintock, Anne, Aamir Mufti, Ella Shohat, eds. Dangerous Liaisons: Gen_der, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives John McLeod. Beginning PostcolonialismFile Size: KB. The Postcolonial narratives in Australian children's books, in a realistic or imaginative mode, often expose the territorial disputes since European settlement and inform young readers of different cultural values and perspectives in relation to the relationships between people and : Daozhi Xu.
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This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone post-colonial writing from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland and Britain. Lyn Innes compares the ways in which authors shape communal identities and interrogate the values and representations of peoples in newly independent : C.
Innes. Postcolonial literature, like Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, has a relationship to the subjugating forces of imperialism and colonial expansion. A Brief History of Postcolonial Literature, Part I us toll free: international: +1 () UK: +44 (0) The Postcolonial Novel provides a concise and invaluable introduction to the rise of postcolonial literatures in English through close readings of seminal novels.
These novels which continue to generate debate long after publication and have influenced the ways in which we think about literature and literary studies provide an ideal entry point to the subject for students.
Significance of Studying Postcolonial Literature and its Relevance Article (PDF Available) in Journal of English Language and Literature 3(3) August w ReadsAuthor: Simhachalam Thamarana.Further, literature of post-colonial nations, while being a means for personal inquiry as was the case for Chinua Achebe and his first book, can function as a forum that fosters an exchange of ideas and encourages that same personal inquiry on the part of the reader.Postcolonialism, the historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism; the term can also be used to describe the concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of lonialism signals a possible future of overcoming colonialism, yet new forms of domination or subordination can.
