Introduction: Realigning the margins: Asian Australian writing

Abstract

engages with Asian Australian writing, a phenomenon that has been staking out a place in the Australian literary landscape since the 1950s and 1960s. It has now burgeoned into an influential area of cultural production, known for its ethnic diversity and stylistic innovativeness and demanding new forms of critical engagement involving transnational and transcultural frameworks. As Wenche Ommundsen and Huang Zhong point out in their article in this issue, the very term "Asian Australian" signals a heterogeneity that rivals that of the dominant Anglo Australian culture; just as white Australian writing displays the lineaments of its complex European heritage, so hybridised works by multicultural writers from mainland China,

The Post Space in Michelle de Kretserrs The Questions of Travel Exist(ing) Identity of Ravi and Laura

“…This paper discusess the possible reproduction of colonial discourse on the main characters, Ravi Mendis and Laura Fraser in Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel [2]. From her perspectives of Asian Australian, De Kretser introduces the modern Australia through the cross cultural experiences [3] [4]. This paper specifically engages with Sara Upstone's points on the implication of spatial order on personae.…”

Representations of transculturation and agency in Bangladeshi diaspora novels in English

“…This approach to contact zones and cultural encounters is highly relevant to the present project. exclusion" (240). Hence, the formation of a creole self and identity often involves frustration and despair.…”