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'Recent criticism has seen the rise of an approach to literature that views texts as products of 'transnationalism,' a move that arises from a growing sense that, in a global age, authors should not be bounded by the traditional limits of national culture. In her book Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006), for instance, Rebecca Walkowitz looks at how this trend has evolved in world Anglophone literature, extending from canonical writers like Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf to such contemporary authors as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, and W.G. Sebald. In the field of Australian literature, the question of transnationalism is often linked to issues of postcolonialism, as reflected in recent critical works like Graham Huggan's Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (2007) and Nathanael O'Reilly's edited collection Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (2010), both of which examine how Australian literature and culture have metamorphosed in the new global context. While there is little doubt that world literature has been affected in important ways by this broadening of literary stage, there seems to be a widespread conflation between two similar but different terms: the transnational and transcultural. For while it is true that the culture of many countries arises from a cosmopolitan and diverse assortment of influences, this loosening of cultural boundaries between nations is far from being simultaneous with the decline of the state.' (Author's introduction)
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- Australian Literature : Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism 2007 single work criticism
- Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010 anthology criticism
- The Passing of the Aborigines : A Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia 1938 single work autobiography
- Francis : A Saint's Way 2002 single work biography
- A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations Of Fra Mauro, Cartographer To The Court Of Venice 1996 single work novel
- The Mountain Men: and the Snowy River Riders on the Mountains Make their Home 1982 single work
- Mysteries Of The Dream-time: The Spiritual Life of Australian Aborigines 1989 single work
- The River People 1983 single work
- A Troubadour's Testament : A Novel 1998 single work novel
- The Great Australian Loneliness 1937 single work autobiography
- The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007 anthology criticism
- James Cowan and the White Quest for Black Self 2001 single work criticism
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