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Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts
of 'home and away'. They operate not only as international
connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What
are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which
transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational
focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics
as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the
focus to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences and
concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between
India and Australia. Studies come from scholars in both countries,
who combine academic depth for students and researchers and writing
that is clear and engaging for the general reader.
Written by Paul Sharrad, professor of English at Wollongong
University, Australia, this book is the successful outcome of a
difficult feat it represents an interesting new approach to a
well-trodden field of study. In this collection of essays, the
author revisits certain issues within the distinctive frames of
each essay. Of particular interest is the way the author is
continually mindful of how postcolonial studies might be
reconceptualised an approach that many critics of note have taken
in recent years, especially Neil Lazarus, Reed Dasenbrock, and Bart
Moore-Gilbert, in different ways. This author s way is, in part, to
reconsider postcolonial literary history against ideas of History
as a dominant epistemology. Another refreshing take here too is the
way in which the theoretical positions are meaningfully explored in
the context of imaginative literary texts; the book brings together
the best scholarly qualities of close reading and a sophisticated
and nuanced understanding of theory and the history that cloaks
everything. This book is a very significant contribution to
postcolonial studies and advances the ever more richly complicated
discourse that has emerged in the field.
In a time of dynamism and contradiction in Pacific cultural
production, a time of 'turning things over' and 'writing from the
inside out, ' this far-reaching volume provides a comprehensive set
of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the New
Pacific. With its dynamic combination of important position papers,
polemics, and decolonizing critiques by noted authors and of
analysis by new and established post-colonial scholars, this volume
exposes 'the maze and mix of literatures and cultural identities
breaking down and building up across the Pacific Ocean.' This
pioneering work will be the definitive resource for anyone
researching or teaching Pacific literature and will be invaluable
for bringing Pacific culture to readers outside the region
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