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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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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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: |
P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR9080 Postcolonial literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR8309 English literature: Provincial, local, etc. > PR9619.3 Australian literature |
| Creators: | Wilson, Janet M |
| Editors: | Wilson, Janet M and Lokuge, Chandani |
| 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 |
| 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: | |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056 |
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