Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader

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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 genres of drama, poetry, autobiography, explores' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literature, horror, crime fiction, queer writing, and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness". Juxtaposing the varied critical perspectives of nearly 60 international critics this Reader hopes to create a constructive dialogue in the fight against the dominance of an Anglo-American academic approach.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amit Sarwal

Amit Sarwal is presently teaching as Lecturer at the Department of English, SGND Khalsa College, University of Delhi. He has co-edited English Studies, Indian Perspectives (2006) with Makarand Paranjape and Aneeta Rajendran, Austrralian Studies Now (2007) with Andrew Hassam, and Fact & Ficition: Reading in Australian Literature (2008) ans Creative ation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader (2009) with Reema Sarwal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Reema Sarwal

Reema Sarwal is presently pursuing PhD on Australian Fantasy Fiction from centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has co-edited Fact & Fiction: reading in Australian Literature (2008) and Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader (2009) with Amit Sarwal, and is also working as annotator for the online Routledge Bibliography of English Studies.

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Title
Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8190228218, 9788190228213
Length
lxxv+633p., Tables; Figures; 25cm.
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