The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the
development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume …

Marilyn Metta is the cowinner of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2011
Qualitative Book Award. Memory, embedded in our scripts of the past, inscribed in our …

While the realities of the global city would seem to render the century-old, modernist figure of
the flâneur (and the disputed flâneuse) obsolete, embodied citizens and narrators have …

This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that
literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social …

Writing from the culturally hybridised spaces of Malaysia and Australia, Hsu-Ming Teo
addresses the question of what it means to 'be an Australian'in her most recent novel Behind …

The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in
which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of …

Literature located within the burgeoning field of Chinese Australian and AsianAustralian
studies highlights salient issues the descendants of Asian migrants face as aracialised …

ABSTRACT The Malaysian Australian writer Hsu-Ming Teo's novel Behind the Moon depicts
how conventional racism in multicultural Australia is re-enacted as a kind of cultural racism …

Abstract 'Singapore stories' are often metonymic of larger cultural and political processes.
Tales of arrival published in Singapore become allegories of a developmental narrative of …

Drawing samples from Unpolished gem (2006) and Laurinda (2014) written by second
generation migrant writer, Alice Pung, this paper employs the world Englishes and cultural …