Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an
influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic
diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding
new transnational and transcultural critical frameworks of such
syncretic writing, the contributors collectively examine how the
varied and diverse body of Asian Australian literary work
intervenes into contemporary representational politics and culture.
The book questions, for instance, the ideology of Australian
multiculturalism; the core/periphery hierarchy; the perpetuation of
Orientalist attitudes and stereotypes; and white Australian claims
to belong as seen in its myths of cultural authenticity and
authority. Ranging in critical analyses from the historic first
Chinese-Australian novel to contemporary award winning Sri Lankan,
Bangladeshi and Filipino Australian novels, the book provides an
inside view of the ways in which Asian Australian literary work is
reshaping Australian mainstream literature, politics and culture,
and in the wider context, the world literary scene. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing.
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