This book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of
language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts. The Language of Postcolonial Literatures …

After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's
bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and …

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 …

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 …

This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking
specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses …

Asian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation,
where the focus is on issues of crime, housing, employment, racism and related concerns …

Although writing a dissertation is sometimes a solitary process, it is never a lonely one. I
have had the great pleasure of working with and being surrounded by many intellectual and …

Un-Australian Fictions sets out to analyse a subset of Australian literary fictions published
between 1988 and 2008–from the bicentenary of British settlement to the global financial …

This article begins with a discussion of the ways in which history and literature have been
mutually dependent activities, then moves on to examine the usage of Australian history in …