Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies ReaderAmit Sarwal, Reema Sarwal The Englishness of English literature had been expressed in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott, those writers whose works seemed best to embody the spirit of the place or the spirit of its folk. In what writers or works would the Australianness of Australian literature be discovered? (David Carter 1997)--------This first literary Reader on Australian studies from India not only investigates this central question but explores many other facets of Australian literature and especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, this Reader explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied genres of drama, poetry, autobiography, explorers' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literature, horror, crime fiction, queer writing, and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness." Juxtaposing the varied critical perspectives of nearly 60 critics this Reader hopes to create a constructive dialogue in the fight against the dominance of an Anglo-American academic approach. |
Contents
Bill Ashcroft | xiii |
N Martin Nakata | xiv |
Yasmine Gooneratne | xv |
foreword | xxi |
David Walker | xxxiv |
introduction | xxxv |
Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal | liv |
Bruce Bennett | lvi |
Margaret Allen | lxv |
Patrick Buckridge | lxvi |
DCruz and William Steele | lxxiv |
the critical scene | lxxv |
Alice Mills | lxxvii |
Madsen | lxxix |
Leigh Dale | lxxxi |
Susan Jacobowitz | lxxxv |
Common terms and phrases
A. D. Hope Aboriginal writing academic Allen & Unwin Ambivalence Towards Asia Amit Sarwal Anglo Australian Ashis Nandy Asian Image Association Australia and India Australian culture Australian history Australian Literary Criticism Australian literary studies Australian Literature Australian Studies Australian writing British Cambridge Catholic Centre Chinese Christian church Cited Works Cited colonial cricket CSM/NCC Cultural Cringe D’Cruz D'Cruz and Steele David Delhi Diaspora English Studies essays European fiction genres Henry Lawson Histories and National History of Australia identity India Indigenous Australians intellectual issues J. V. D'Cruz journals Judith Wright Literary History Little Cultures lived London Mahatma Gandhi Melbourne Narasimhaiah National Literatures non-Anglo novel Oxford Penguin people-of-colour Peter Carey Phillips poetry political postcolonial Prof Proslogion published Queensland racism Ralph Crane Readings in Australian Reema Sarwal Sareen Sarwal and Reema South St Lucia Sydney teaching University Values Debate Victoria Weary Dunlop