Australian made: A multicultural reader - Softcover

Mycak, Sonia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1920899367 ISBN 13: 9781920899363

Publisher: Sydney University Press, 2011

Synopsis

'Australian made' is a collection of essays about the writers, the readers and the texts of multicultural Australia. Despite the different approaches they take, the essays address a number of questions which are important for understanding Australian multicultural society and Australia's national literary culture. How does multiculturalism intersect with different genres and generic conventions? How is cultural diversity expressed and enacted within life writing, women's writing, experimental writing, children's literature, poetry, prose and film? What does it mean to be a 'multicultural writer' in Australia today? What is a 'multicultural text'? Presenting the work of critics and scholars from both Australia and abroad, this collection creates a synergy between local and international perspectives as it explores what it means for a writer or a reader to be 'Australian' and a text to be 'Australian made'.

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About the Authors

Sonia Mycak is the Ukranian Studies Foundation in Australia research fellow at Australian National University's Centre for European studies.

Amit Sarwal is an Endeavour postdoctoral research fellow at the Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University. He is also an honorary associate professor (visiting) of RMIT.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sydney University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1920899367
• ISBN 13: 9781920899363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Mycak Sonia, Sarwal Amit