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Huggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world.

Title Australian literature : postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism / Graham Huggan. [electronic resource]
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Formerly CIP.
Previously issued in print: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-177) and index.
English
Content Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Australian Timeline
1 Australian Literature, Race, and the Politics of Location
2 Beginning Again
3 Interrogating Whiteness
4 Multiculturalism and its Discontents
Afterword
Notes
References
Index
Series Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures
Oxford scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (210 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713859605171
MARC RECORDS
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