AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'In Diaspora literature, most 'homes' are constructed through the memories of the migrants - the idea of the belonging to someplace stable. In relation to this, Manfred Jurgensen (1986) has argued that ethnic writers are ‘monocultural writers whose creative imagination remains restricted to a native culture (home) in exile...’
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 10 Aug 2017 06:39:29
221-243
Real, Imagined and Mythologised : (Re)presentation of Lost Home in Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia
Subjects:
- Tamil Tigress 1997 single work novel
- Life with Sea Views 2000 single work short story
- Masterpiece and Other Stories 2002 selected work short story
- Of Jasmines and Jumboos 1993 single work autobiography
Export this record