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Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
Nathanael O'Reilly
(editor),
Youngstown
:
Cambria Press
,
2010
Z1748637
2010
anthology
criticism
'The primary objectives of the essay collection are to emphasize, highlight, and examine the postcolonial nature of Australian literature. Within postcolonial studies, literature from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean is often privileged, causing the literature of settler societies such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand to be ignored. This collection provides ample evidence that Australian literature is indeed postcolonial literature, that it deserves more recognition as such, and that postcolonial reading strategies provide immensely fruitful methods for analyzing Australian texts. Moreover, the collection seeks to fill a gap in postcolonial studies.
Essay collections focusing on the postcolonial nature of national and regional literatures have previously been published; however, Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature is the first collection to focus exclusively on Australian literature as postcolonial literature and the first collection of essays on Australian literature in which all the contributors write from a postcolonial theoretical perspective. It is thus a groundbreaking work that makes an important contribution to both Australian literary studies and postcolonial studies.'Narrow definitions of "postcolonial" that exclude settler colonies such as Australia not only serve to marginalize rich bodies of literature and literary criticism, they also ignore and/or obscure the fact that there are many kinds of postcolonialism, many types of postcolonial societies, and many ways for texts to be postcolonial. Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature, as a body of work, insists that Australian literature is postcolonial literature and deserves equal status with the literature of other postcolonial nations' (Publisher website).
Youngstown : Cambria Press , 2010 pg. 15-37
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y
Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
Nathanael O'Reilly
(editor),
Youngstown
:
Cambria Press
,
2010
Z1748637
2010
anthology
criticism
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- Against the Tide of Time : Peter Carey's Interpolation into History 1996 single work criticism
- The Horizonal Sublime 2005 single work criticism
- Post-Colonial Transformation 2001 single work criticism
- Reading Carey Reading Malley 2004 single work criticism
- The Return of the Native : An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon 1993 single work criticism
- Simulation, Resistance and Transformation : The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 2005 single work criticism
- The Empire Writes Back : Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures 1989 single work criticism
- The Writer in Australia : A Collection of Literary Documents, 1856-1964 1969 anthology criticism biography prose correspondence
- My Life as a Fake 2003 single work novel
- Oscar and Lucinda 1988 single work novel
- The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 1994 single work novel
- After Post-Colonialism 2007 single work criticism
- Boundary Work : Australian Literary Studies in the Field of Knowledge Production 2004 single work criticism
- Gould's Book of Fish : A Novel in Twelve Fish 2001 single work novel
- Leaves from Australian Forests 1869 selected work poetry
- Henry Lawson 1985 selected work poetry autobiography prose short story
- Craft for a Dry Lake 2000 single work autobiography
- Remembering Babylon 1993 single work novel
- Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry
- Tree of Man 1988 extract novel