Australian literature : postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism
"In a provocative contribution to the series, Graham Huggan presents fresh readings of an outstanding, sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers just as unmistakably belong to the wider world. Australian literature, the book argues, is not a unique province of Australian readers and critics, nor is its exclusive task to provide an internal commentary on changing national concerns. Rather, the book adopts a transnational approach, motivated by postcolonial interests, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are productively combined and imaginatively transformed
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 187 pages ; 21 cm.
9780199274628, 9780199229673, 0199274622, 0199229678
123377307
1. Australian literature, race, and the politics of location
2. Beginning again
3. Interrogating whiteness
4. Multiculturalism and its discontents