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Australian Literature - Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (Hardcover, New)
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Australian Literature - Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures
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The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers
stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and
key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of
postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provocative
contribution to the series, Graham Huggan presents fresh readings
of an outstanding, sometimes deeply unsettling national literature
whose writers and readers just as unmistakably belong to the wider
world. Australian literature is not the unique province of
Australian readers and critics; nor is its exclusive task to
provide an internal commentary on changing national concerns.
Huggan's book adopts a transnational approach, motivated by
postcolonial interests, in which contemporary ideas taken from
postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are productively
combined and imaginatively transformed. Rejecting the fashionable
view that Australia is not, and never will be, postcolonial, Huggan
argues on the contrary that Australian literature, like other
settler literatures, requires close attention to postcolonial
methods and concerns. A postcolonial approach to Australian
literature, he suggests, is more than just a case for a more
inclusive nationalism; it also involves a general acknowledgement
of the nation's changed relationship to an increasingly globalized
world. As such, the book helps to deprovincialize Australian
literary studies. Australian Literature also contributes to debates
about the continuing history of racism in Australia-a history in
which the nation's literature has played a constitutive role, as
both product and producer of racial tensions and anxieties, nowhere
more visible than in the discourse it has produced about race, both
within and beyond the national context.
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