Australian Literature - Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism

Informationen zum Autor Graham Huggan teaches in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature. An acknowledged world expert in the field of postcolonial literary and cultural studies, he is the author of Territorial Disputes (1994), Peter Carey (1996), and The Postcolonial Exotic (2001). Klappentext Graham Huggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this outstanding and sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world. Zusammenfassung Graham Huggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this outstanding and sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Huggan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2007
• EAN: 9780199274628
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927462-8
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
• Subject: Education and learning