Wilson, J. M. (2018) (Not) being at home: Hsu Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon (2005) and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2012). In: Wilson, J. M. and Lokuge, C. (eds.) Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing. London: Routledge. pp. 19-32.
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Abstract:
This article examines some interventions of Asian Australian writing into the debate over multiculturalism, and the shift from negative stereotyping of Asian migrants, to reification of racial divisions and propagation of a masked racism, to the creation of new alignments and the revival of pre-existing affiliations by migrant and secondgeneration subjects. It compares the practices of not-at-homeness by Asian migrants and their descendants and white Australians in Hsu Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon with those of a Sri Lankan refugee and a white Australian traveller in Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel.
The changing concepts of belonging in the novels show a realignment of core and periphery relations within the nation state under the pressures of multiculturalism and globalization: where home is and how it is configured are questions as important for white Australians whose sense of territory is challenged as they are for Asian migrants who seek to establish a new belonging.
Additional Information:
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Hsu Ming Teo, Michelle de Kretser, multiculturalism,
white Australian, not-athomeness, Asian Australian writing, diaspora subjects
Subjects:
Creators:
Wilson, J. M.
Editors:
Wilson, J. M. and Lokuge, C.
Publisher:
Routledge
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Date:
23 January 2018
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 19-32
Title of Book:
Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing
Place of Publication:
London
Number of Pages:
116
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781138570818
Media of Output:
Print
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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