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Writing As Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres Da Costa And Alice Pung, Wenche Ommundsen
Writing As Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres Da Costa And Alice Pung, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
Mina Pereira, the narrator of Suneeta Peres da Costa's novel Homework, is born with feelers on top of her head:small protuberances, or antennae, which grow bogger at times of emotional stress. 'She might be a little bit sensitive, thats all' (Peres da Costa, 1999:5), her parents explain, defending their daughter against insensitive strangers accusing her of being an alien, and extraterrestrial, a mutant. Mina is sensitive, as is the young protagonist of Alice Pung's autobiographical narrative Unpolished Gem, sensitive to their difference as reflected in the eyes and behaviour of schoolmates and friends, sensitive, in particular, to cultural …
Auslit: Resource For Australian Literature - Australian Multicultural Writers, Wenche Ommundsen
Auslit: Resource For Australian Literature - Australian Multicultural Writers, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen
Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
Work In Progress: Multicultural Writing In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen
Work In Progress: Multicultural Writing In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
Multiculturalism, write Pnina Werbner, is 'an important rhetoric and an impossible practice'. My morning news paper on Australia Day 2006 reminded me of just how important, and how impossible, Australian multiculturalism remains three decades after its inception. 'PM claims victory wars', read the front-page headline. The article, a report on John Howard's address to the National Press Club, details the Prime Minister's retreat from the 'excesses of multiculturalism' and the 'black armband' view of history associated with the Keating Labor government (1991-96), and his conviction that the 'divisive, phoney debate about national identity' has come to an end, replaced by …
Bastard Moon: Essays On Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Bastard Moon: Essays On Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
From "Hello Freedom" To "Fuck You Australia": Recent Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
From "Hello Freedom" To "Fuck You Australia": Recent Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History, Wenche Ommundsen, B. Edwards
Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History, Wenche Ommundsen, B. Edwards
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
‘This Story Does Not Begin On A Boat’: What Is Australian About Asian Australian Writing?, Wenche Ommundsen
‘This Story Does Not Begin On A Boat’: What Is Australian About Asian Australian Writing?, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
With reference to recent debates about the politics of representation, this paper argues that a profound ambivalence about identity, and particularly about Asian Australian identity, is a common characteristic that marks this writing as specifically Australian. Tracing cultural contexts from the 'pathologies' of Australian multicultural debates to other transnational literary traditions, the paper issues examples from the writing of Brain Castro, Alice Pung, Ouyang Yu, Nam Le, Shaun Tan, and Tom Cho to speculate on the emergence of a new and distinct phase of transnational writing in Australia.