Diaspora: The Australian Experience edited by Cynthia vanden Driesen and Ralph Crane
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9788175511767
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Author: Cynthia vanden Driesen (editor) and Ralph Crane (editor)
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Prestige Books
Place: New Delhi
Year: 2005
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 544 pages
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.
Collection of writings from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India on the theme of diaspora as part of a conference organised by the Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia.
Contents:
1. Theoretical and philosophical issues. Being not-at-home: a conceptual discussion / Jane Mummery
Home and horizon by Bill Ashcroft
The diaspora, community and the vagrant space by Dennis Wood
2. Socio-cultural commentary. Dishing up Australian cultural history by Adrian Mitchell
Killing me softly: storytelling, ageing and the migrant experience by Kateryna Longley
Geographies of displacement and resettlement by Anjali Gera Roy
The Muslim diaspora in the West: the challenges from an Australian perspective by Ameer Ali
Colonial to global: paradoxes of expatriation in Australia's diasporic story by Stephen Alomes
He Wei Gu: 'Harmony is most valuable': a Chinese cultural schema and its influence on intercultural communication by Leng Hui
3. Insights through literature. Some reflections on selected writings by Indian writers in Australia by R K Dhawan
The Anglo-Indian (Raj) diaspora in Australasia by Ralph Crane
Twice banished: exile and displacement in Nandan's Requiem for a rainbow by Malati Mathur
Ania Walwicz: the migrant poet on Australian soil by N Bindu
Ambiguity and indigeneity in Hasluck's The country without music by Srilata Ravi
Satendra Nandan's Requiem for a rainbow: a critical study by D K Pabby
S. Asian odysseys in Australia - w/here is 'home'? by Cynthia vanden Driesen
Endurance and survival: Lazaroo's An Australian fianceÌ by Sunitha Byrappa
Spacing the third "I" in diaspora writings by Keya Majumdar
The visionary symphony in Hasluck's The country without music by K Reghunadhan Pillai
4. Perspectives from the social sciences. Asian labour in Western Australia and the origins of the "White Australia" policy by Ian vanden Driesen
Australia's multi-cultural heritage - adaptation of the Greeks: the Western Australian experience by Reginald Appleyard
Indian diaspora in Australia by R.N. Ghosh
Japanese diaspora into Western Australia before 1901 by Sachiko Sone
Diaspora and security dilemmas: the War on Terror and the 'other' in Australia by Robert Imre
The social and economic impact of the arrival of Australia's newest boat people by Trudy Hoad
The economics and politics of illegal immigration in Australiaby M A B Siddique
5. The New Zealand context. Going native: how the New Zealand settler became indigenous by Jane Stafford
Smoothing the pillow of a dying race? ways of fading in 'Maoriland' by Mark Williams
Home is a failed idea by James Meffan
6. The literary artists contribution. Poems: "Dieter at the wheel" and "Maya" by Syd Harrex
Being somewhere else: diaspora as a form of alibi by Nicholas Hasluck
An aspect of the Valtellinese diaspora: Lombardy to Western Australia (1895-1960) and "The entombed miner" by Glen Phillips
The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italians and Italy in Australian literature by Antonio Casella
Memorialising the lost past by Simone Lazaroo
Diaspora and creativity: notes on variations by Edwin Thumboo
"Robust applause" for Nyoongar writers in India / Jan Kapetas; Stories from the journey by Noel Morrison and Kay Wiley
The last rites by Satendra Nandan
Diaspora from the Jewish perspective: a brief discussion and a reading by Serge Liberman
7. Broader applications. "Sea change" for academic libraries and an Australia-Maldives partnership project by Julia Gross
An investigation of some important issues concerning new communications technologies and the Third World including "live-in" diaspora by Serge Walberg
Writing before writing: the diaspora of the oral poets / Greg Battye
Storybook: Creating a personalised learning environment for children isolated by severe learning disabilities by Michael Collins and Joanne Church.
Diaspora: The Australian Experience edited by Cynthia vanden Driesen and Ralph Crane
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