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The volume is a study of Indo-Australian ties from the viewpoint of practice of public diplomacy. It deals with the historical roots of public diplomacy in general and public diplomacy in a post-imperialism world order. Examining public diplomacy in their relations over the decades, it argues that the future of Australian-India relations and positive engagement between them lies in public diplomacy practices that the countries adopt. It emphasises the cultivation ...
Creative Nation is the first Reader on Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies published in India that introduces Australian films (Historical, contemporary, art house, short, digital, and documentary) as well as cultural texts (pop and hip hop, popular theatre, film music, Aboriginal songs and music, mass art, queer, and photographic culture) for an photographic culture) for an international scholarship in order to broaden Australian studies in nations that have ...
This first Reader on Australian studies from India not only investigates this central question but explores many other facets of Australian literature and especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, this Reader explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied ...
Contents: Acknowledgements. Preface: Comprehension without closure: Australian studies for the Twenty-first century?/Nicholas Birns. 1. Introduction: an Indian Ocean outlook: Australian studies in Australia and India/Richard Nile. 2. Additive exile in David Martin: The necessary other that makes for place and home/J.V. D'Cruj and William Steele. 3. Fictional reality strikes back: C.J. Koch's novels from fiction to friction/Jean-Francois Vernary. 4. Colonisation, ...