Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature: International Perspectives

by Callahan,David; Callahan,David

• ISBN13: 9780714652375
• ISBN10: 0714652377
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The contemporary study of Australian literature, as befitting that of a country that has been at the forefront of postcolonial studies, is a highly self-conscious and theoreticized enterprise, carried on by academics across the globe and not just Australians concerned with asserting their national identity as used to be the case. This volume deals with issues such as the tensions between literary and cultural studies, indigenous autobiography, postcolonial nostalgia, masculinity, the placing of Australia in the Pacific and in Asia, the uses of Australian literature in the United States, and includes the considerations of such widely-studied authors as Mudrooroo, Peter Carey and Patrick White.

Table of Contents

Australian Literary Studies Bushwhacked?	p. 1
Cyberspace and Oz Lit: Mark Davis, McKenzie Wark and the Re-Alignment of Australian Literature	p. 17
Ethnic Autobiography and the Cult of Authenticity	p. 37
Melancholy in Mudrooroo's Dr Wooreddy's Prescription	p. 63
Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves	p. 84
Misogyny, Muscles and Machines: Cars and Masculinity in Australian Literature	p. 95
May in September: Australian Literature as Anglophone Alternative	p. 112
From European Satellite to Asian Backwater?	p. 133
Australia in Oceania	p. 153
Notes on Contributors	p. 173
Index	p. 175
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