Reconfiguring Australia’s Literary Canon: Antipodean Cultural Tectonics

This paper shows how an Australian community imagined by the European continent has evolved to become more inclusive of otherness, be it in the form of non-Anglo-Australian cultures, Australian regional cultures, or a significant Indigenous culture intimately linked to the land. In this process, whi...

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Autore principale: Ben-Messahel, Salhia
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:This paper shows how an Australian community imagined by the European continent has evolved to become more inclusive of otherness, be it in the form of non-Anglo-Australian cultures, Australian regional cultures, or a significant Indigenous culture intimately linked to the land. In this process, which is comparable to tectonic shifts, some Australian authors have attempted, within a 21st-century global village, to map intercultural spaces that reveal a pervasive sense of emptiness and the uncanny.