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1 From Foreign Shores: Stories of Migration Peta Stephenson , single work criticism Dr. Peta Stephenson's Speech at the Brisbane Writer's Festival on 15 September 2007.
1 Identifying Differently: Recent Chinese-Australian Literature Peta Stephenson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 258-272)
1 5 y separately published work icon The Outsiders Within : Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story Peta Stephenson , Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2007 Z1482462 2007 single work criticism 'The Outsiders Within is an engaging account of the ways in which over hundreds of years Indigenous and Southeast Asian people across Australia have traded, inter-married and built hybrid communities. It is also a disturbing expose of the persistent, sometimes paranoid, efforts of successive white governments to police, marginalise and outlaw these encounters. ...brings to life the three-way relationship between Indigenous, Asian and white Australians by drawing on family narratives and oral histories as well as official documents; and re-examines Australia's identity, how it is constructed and what it forgets.' Source: Back cover.
1 Where are you from? : New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese-Australian Writing Peta Stephenson , 2005 single work essay
— Appears in: Culture, Identity, Commodity : Diasporic Chinese Literature in English 2005; (p. 107-128)
1 Cross-Cultural Alliances : Exploring Aboriginal Asian Literary and Cultural Production Peta Stephenson , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lost in the Whitewash : Aboriginal-Asian Encounters in Australia, 1901-2001 2003; (p. 143-162) Peta Stephenson surveys Aboriginal-Asian cross-cultural production, considering representations of Aboriginal-Asian relations, influences on the construction of contemporary Aboriginality, and Aboriginal perceptions of Asian identity.
1 New Cultural Scripts : Exploring the Dialogue between Indigenous and 'Asian' Australians Peta Stephenson , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 77 2003; (p. 57-68, notes 189-191) Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 526-538) The article challenges the separation of indigenous and migrant discourses and communities through an exploration of the cross-cultural partnerships and alliances between Indigenous and Asian peoples within Australia. It examines the historical links forged between Aboriginal communities and Asian seafarers in the colonies and with non-European migrant communities. It also examines various literary works, the visual arts and other cultural productions in order to outline the conflicts and points of solidarity that structure contemporary relations between Aboriginal and Asian Australians. The last part of the article argues 'for a new imagining of nation that neither separates nor entirely equates Indigenous and Asian peoples and discourses' (58).
1 [Review] The Captive White Woman of Gippsland: In Pursuit of the Legend Peta Stephenson , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 1 no. 2002; (p. 84-86)
— Review of The Captive White Woman of Gippsland: In Pursuit of the Legend Julie Carr , 2001 single work criticism
1 Finding Common Ground : Indigenous and Asian Diasporic Cultural Production in Australia Peta Stephenson , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 27 no. 2 2001; (p. 59-67) Noting an emerging dialogue between Australian Indigenous and Asian communities in Australia, the author affirms the long history of Asian and Aboriginal contact. She sees Aboriginal and Asian-Australian writings and cultural productions playing an important part in exploring and revealing the the experiences of their communities, highlighting the tensions and the points of solidarity between them.
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