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(Not) being at home: Hsu Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon (2005) and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2012)

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.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions
Creators:
Wilson, J. M.
Editors:
Wilson, J. M. and Lokuge, C.
Publisher:
Routledge
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
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
Number:
1st
Place of Publication:
London
Number of Pages:
14
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781138570818
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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