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This book examines the representation of masculinities in
contemporary texts written by women who have immigrated into France
or Canada from a range of geographical spaces. Exploring works by
Leonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou Diome (Senegal), Assia Djebar,
Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Ying Chen
(China) and Kim Thuy (Vietnam), this study charts the extent to
which migration generates new ways of understanding and writing
masculinities. It draws on diverse theoretical perspectives,
including postcolonial theory, affect theory and critical race
theory, while bringing visibility to the many women across various
historical and geographical terrains who write about (im)migration
and the impact on men, even as these women, too, acquire a
different position in the new society.
This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its
waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in
the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an
ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical
and aesthetic significance for the city by its shores. In
Australia's earliest canon of urban fiction, writers including
Christina Stead, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark, Kylie Tennant and M.
Barnard Eldershaw explore the myth and the reality of the city
'built on water'. Mapping Sydney via its watery and littoral
places, these writers trace impacts of empire, commercial
capitalism, global trade and technology on the city, while drawing
on estuarine logics of flow and blockage, circulation and
sedimentation to innovate modes of writing temporally,
geographically and aesthetically specific to Sydney's provincial
modernity. Contributing to the growing field of oceanic or aqueous
studies, Sydney and its Waterway and Australian Modernism shows the
capacity of water and human-water relations to make both generative
and disruptive contributions to urban topography and narrative
topology
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