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1 Englishness in Australia : The Idea of National Identity in Peter Carey's Novels Floriana Perna , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Anglistica , vol. 4 no. 2 2000;
This article analyses the representation of English and Australian national identity in Carey's historical novels. The construction and deconstruction of Englishness and Australianness leads to a problematic question: is it desirable to erase the notion of national identity in the contemporary postcolonial world? (from Anglistica's webpage).
1 Identity, Alterity, Writing: "Songlines" by Bruce Chatwin Floriana Perna , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Anglistica , vol. 2 no. 2 1998;
Floriana Perna analyses Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines to draw attention to the limits of this European account of otherness.
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