This book presents thirteen essays that address the numerous ways
in which Australian literature is postcolonial and can be read
using postcolonial reading strategies. The collection addresses a
wide variety of Australian texts produced from the colonial period
to the present, including works by Henry Lawson, Miles Franklin,
Patrick White, Xavier Herbert, David Malouf, Peter Carey, Rodney
Hall, Andrew McGahan, Elizabeth Jolley, Judith Wright, Kate
Grenville, Janette Turner Hospital, Melissa Lucashenko, Kim Scott,
and Alexis Wright. The chapters focus on works by Indigenous
authors and writers of European descent, and examine specifically
postcolonial issues, including hybridity, first contact,
resistance, appropriation, race relations, language usage,
indigeneity, immigration/invasion, land rights and ownership,
national identity, marginalization, mapping, naming, mimicry, the
role of historical narratives, settler guilt and denial, and
anxieties regarding belonging. The essays emphasize the
postcolonial nature of Australian literature and utilize
postcolonial theory to analyze Australian texts. This is an
important book for all literature and Australasian collections. The
collection is primarily aimed at students, teachers and scholars of
Australian and postcolonial literature, including undergraduate and
postgraduate students, faculty who teach courses in Australian and
postcolonial literature, and scholars who conduct research on
Australian and postcolonial literature. The book will be useful for
courses on both Australian literature and postcolonial literature,
especially postcolonial courses that include Australian texts. The
collection includes contributions addressing the work of many
internationally recognized leading contemporary Australian
novelists, providing the collection with broad appeal to students
and scholars around the world with an interest in prominent,
award-wining authors and works.
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