Imaginary antipodes
Subtitle: essays on contemporary Australian literature and culture
By: Russell West-Pavlov
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 416; Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 416.
Publisher: Winter; Universitätsverlag Winter; Universitatsverlag Winter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9783825359256
Subjects: History and criticism; Australian literature; Literatur
Notes: Collection of texts published previously.

Essays.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: pt. 1. 'Why, white man, why?': white Australia as the addressee of apostrophe in contemporary Aboriginal writing; title: Uncovering collective crimes: Sally Morgan's My place as Australian indigenous aboriginal narrative; title: The time of biopolitics in the settler colony; title: pt. 2. 'White aboriginals': white Australian literary responses to the challenge of indigenous histories; title: Fencing in the frontier; title: Invasion and pathology: Australia, Mabo, McGahan and Malouf; title: pt. 3. Exile as origin: definitions of Australian identities in malouf's 12 Edmondstone Street; title: The absence of Hungary: notes on a didactic autobiography by David Martin; title: 'Multiple exposures': spatial dilemmas of postmodern artistic identity in the fiction of Janette Turner Hospital; title: Double-crossing one nation: contemporary Asian-Australian narratives; title: pt. 4. 'This is a man's country': masculinity and Australian national identity in Crocodile Dundee; title: The trauma of translation and the translation of trauma: translation and cultural plurality in Fremd and Yasbincek; title: Translation history as a provocation for Australian literary studies (with Jens Elze); title: Bibliography.