Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature
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The contemporary study of Australian literature, as befitting that of a country that has been at the forefront of postcolonial studies, is a highly self-conscious and theoreticized enterprise, carried on by academics across the globe and not just Australians concerned with asserting their national identity as used to be the case. This volume deals with issues such as the tensions between literary and cultural studies, indigenous autobiography, postcolonial nostalgia, masculinity, the placing of Australia in the Pacific and in Asia, the uses of Australian literature in the United States, and includes the considerations of such widely-studied authors as Mudrooroo, Peter Carey and Patrick White.
Australian Literary Studies Bushwhacked?1Cyberspace and Oz Lit: Mark Davis, McKenzie Wark and the Re-Alignment of Australian Literature17Ethnic Autobiography and the Cult of Authenticity37Melancholy in Mudrooroo's Dr. Wooreddy's Prescription63Abjection and Nationality in Patrick White's: A Fringe of Leaves84Misogyny, Muscles and Machines: Cars and Masculinity in Australian Literature95May in September: Australian Literature as Anglophone Alternative112From European Satellite to Asian Backwater?133Australia in Oceania153Notes on Contributors173Index175
