Multiculturalism
Articles
- Review of Beyond the Echo: Multicultural Women's Writings, edited by Sneja Gunew and Jan Mahyuddin; and Conflicts of Love by Con Castan, Reflections: Selected Works from Greek Literature, edited by Thanasis Spilias and Stavros Messinis
The post-war years witnessed the first mass influx of non-English speaking immigrants in Australian history. It has taken several decades for the literature of this…
1 October 1989 - About Face: Asian-Australians at Home
An overview of recent poetry and prose of Asian-Australian writers as they perform an artistic ‘about-face’ to reflect on racialised depictions of minority ethnicities.
1 May 2002 - The Traumas of Translation and the Translation of Trauma: Translation and Cultural Plurality in Fremd and Yasbincek
West-Pavlov asks why translation as an index of cultural plurality receive so little attention in Australian literature and in Australian literary studies and concludes that…
1 October 2007 - The Bridled Pegaroo, or, Is there a Colonial Poetics of Intertextuality
Greek myth relates how Pegasus, immediately after its birth, flew to Mount Helicon, where the stamping of its hoofs caused the Hippocrene Spring, the source…
1 June 1991 - Literary Criticism in Australia: A Change of Critical Paradigms?
For an outsider who began to familiarise himself with the literature from Australia and the concomitant critical debate on its history, its nature and status…
1 June 1991 - Irish-Australian Literature: Ghosts, Genealogy, Tradition
Opening with Christos Tsiolkas’s critique of multiculturalism, this essay considers the theory and practice of Irish-Australian literature in relation to questions of ethnicity and transnationalism…
30 September 2021