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Author:   Janet Wilson ,  Chandani Lokuge
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.230kg
ISBN:  

9780367892494

ISBN 10:   0367892499
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   17 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction: Realigning the margins: Asian Australian writing 1. Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics: The first Chinese Australian novel 2. (Not) being at home: Hsu Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon (2005) and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2012) 3. Mediating literary borders: Sri Lankan writing in Australia 4. Tourists, travellers, refugees: An interview with Michelle De Kretser 5. The diasporic slide: representations of second-generation diasporas in Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies (1991) and in Chandani Lokugé’s If the Moon Smiled (2000) and Softly as I Leave You (2011) 6. ""The root of all evil""? Transnational cosmopolitanism in the fiction of Dewi Anggraeni, Simone Lazaroo and Merlinda Bobis 7. Merlinda Bobis’s Fish-Hair Woman: Showcasing Asian Australianness, putting the question of justice in its place 8. Re-storying the past, re-imagining the future in Adib Khan’s Homecoming and Spiral Road"

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Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She has published widely on Australian and New Zealand postcolonial and diaspora writing and cinema, including guest-edited journals and essay collections, recently The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader. She co-edits Studies in World Literature, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Chandani Lokugé is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Monash University, Australia. Among her 15 book publications are the Oxford Classics Reissues series of Indian women’s writing, three novels and several guest-edited journals, including the Journal for Postcolonial Writing. She edited the Annotated Bibliography of English Studies for Routledge from 2007-2009.

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