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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 The World Waiting to be Made
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'In her first novel Simone Lazaroo describes the experiences of the Dias family (a Eurasian father from Malacca, Australian mother and twin three year old daughters) as they take up a new life in Australia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: To all my friends and family, whichever world they are in.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1994 .
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      Extent: 275p.
      Description: illus., port.
      ISBN: 1863680896
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2000 .
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      Extent: 275p.
      ISBN: 186368302X

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Rethinking Hybridity : Amputated Selves in Asian Diasporic Identity Formation Emily Yu Zong , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Worldmaking : Literature, Language, Culture 2017; (p. 189-200)
A "Bay of Whispers" : Seascape in Simone Lazaroo's The Australian Fiancé Rosalind McFarlane , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 163-173)
'The ocean as a border in Australia has been gaining increasing attention, not only with the arrival of asylum seekers by boat and the relentless government policies to prevent this, but also the connections with Asia that Australia's part of Oceania suggests. Recent scholarship by critics such as Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Suvendrini Perera, and Elizabeth McMahon explore the way representations of oceans can evoke, on the one hand, this doubled sense of insularity and threat, but on the other possibility and connection. Despite the ocean's dominant presence and the way it frames conflict and intimate moments, scholarship on Simone Lazaroo's The Australian Fiance has frequently focused on the way the novel deals with racism in Australia via the Eurasian woman's experience of the White Australia Policy. Here, McFarlane examines the depiction of the sea in Lazaroo's novel as it engages with a kind of insularity with reflection and connective possibility in relation to globalization.' (Publication abstract)
The Ghost and the Host: ‘Hauntologising’ Diasporic Difference in Simone Lazaroo’s Fiction Paul Giffard-Foret , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 148-166)

Explores the use of demonology in Asian Australian women’s fiction as a way of approaching Simone Lazaroo’s oeuvre through the prism of what Jacques Derrida described as ‘hauntology’.

Transcultural Horizons and the Limitations of Multiculturalism in 'The World Waiting to be Made' Lyn Dickens , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 2011;
'This article examines the limitations of Australian multiculturalism via an analysis of Simone Lazaroo's semi-autobiographical novel The World Waiting to be Made, which charts the life of a young mixed race woman in suburban Perth. Through a close reading of this novel, this article argues that current modes of multiculturalism are ill-equipped to deal with people of racially and culturally mixed heritages. Furthermore, through an exploration of the novel and the work of Caribbean scholars Édouard Glissant and Fernando Ortiz this essay asserts that concepts of syncretism, opacity and transculturation may provide alternative modes of perceiving difference within the nation.' (Author's abstract)
Relations of Difference : Asianness, Indigeneity and Whiteness in Simone Lazaroo's Fiction Robyn Morris , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 32 no. 1-2 2010; (p. 116-129)
Simone Lazaroo's fiction is important in discussions of Australian identity formation for its exploration of acculturated representations of both Asianness and Indigeneity. Her body of work brings to visibility issues of representation, especially the way race and gender are intertwined as artificial constructs of difference within Australian cultural and historical discourse. This article examines how Lazaroo's novels engage in a triangulated contemporary representational politics through the articulation of 'relations of difference' in which characters of Asian, Indigenous and Anglo ancestry interact and react to racialised and gendered inscriptions of otherness. This article explores how Lazaroo critiques the hyper-visuality and sexualising of the Asian female body by the dominant white Anglo Australian society and the concomitant erasure of the Indigenous body and culture in stories of nation in The World Waiting to be Made (1994), The Australian Fiancé (2000), and The Travel Writer (2006). These works signal Lazaroo's ongoing interrogation of the politics of both relations of difference and looking relations. [from Kunapipi 32,1-2, Abstracts, p. 245]
Questions of Identity Tracey Ibrahim , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 7 no. 1 1995; (p. 6-7)

— Review of The World Waiting to be Made Simone Lazaroo , 1994 single work novel
Tales of Migrant Women Gail Cork , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 October 1994; (p. 11A)

— Review of Silver Sister Lillian Ng , 1994 single work novel ; The World Waiting to be Made Simone Lazaroo , 1994 single work novel ; Solstice Matt Rubinstein , 1994 single work novel
Journeys Stalled Between Memory and Myth Anne Coombs , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 October 1994; (p. rev 7)

— Review of Romeo of the Underworld Venero Armanno , 1994 single work novel ; The World Waiting to be Made Simone Lazaroo , 1994 single work novel
Forecasts Jane Freeman , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , July vol. 74 no. 1049 1994; (p. 52)

— Review of The World Waiting to be Made Simone Lazaroo , 1994 single work novel
Spiritual Guidance for Those Caught in Between Veronica Sen , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 1994; (p. 22)

— Review of The World Waiting to be Made Simone Lazaroo , 1994 single work novel
The Great Southern Land : Asian-Australian Women Writers Re-View the Australian Landscape Shirley Tucker , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 2 2003; (p. 178-188)
Tucker examines the representation of landscape in Asian-Australian women's writing in terms of the aesthetics of Australian literature.
The World Waiting to be Made Lucy Dougan (interviewer), 1994 single work interview
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , February/March vol. 9 no. 1 1994; (p. 7-8)
'No Place Like Home' : The Ambivalent Rhetoric of Hospitality in the Work of Simone Lazaroo, Arlene Chai, and Hsu-Ming Teo Deborah L. Madsen , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Intercultural Studies , February vol. 27 no. 1-2 2006; (p. 117-132)
This essay addresses the 'neither here nor there' rhetoric of not belonging in Anglophone Chinese Australian literature.
Food, Race and the Power of Recuperative Identity Politics within Asian Australian Women's Fiction Robyn Morris , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 32 no. 4 2008; (p. 499-508)
'This article considers the link between consumption, cuisine and agency in fiction by Asian Australian writers, Hsu-Ming Teo, Simone Lazaroo and Lillian Ng. It argues that the issue of whether these writers employ an oppositional poetics during the process of textualising or fictionalisng their experience and reactions to racialised and gendered practices can be addressed through an evaluation of their deployment of the food metaphor. In other words, do these writers challenge the assumption of a monolithic national identity in which Australian multiculturalism is equated with eating or tasting but disavowing the other?' (499)
Writing Chinese Diaspora : After the 'White Australia Policy' Deborah L. Madsen , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 263-270) Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 158-172)
An overview of Chinese-Australian writing.
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