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A companion to australian aboriginal literature
This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers. Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margin...
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Beyond hostile islands
WINNER, JAVIER COY BIENNIAL RESEARCH AWARD, BEST MONOGRAPHOffers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction.The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting impri...
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Tattooing the world
In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to New York, these markings single...
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The complete review guide to contemporary world fiction
Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, this reference provides a fascinating portal into the styles, trends, and genres of the world’s literatures. Arranged by region, country, and language, entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations and cultures, while concise bio...
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The rise of pacific literature
Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward identify the local innovations and international networks that spurred Pacific literature’s golden age by reading crucial works against the poetry, prose, and plays on the syllabi of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific.
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The uses of literacy in colonial australia
Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as what they wrote, in terms of personal and everyday, non-literary writings. It emphasises the Britishness of colonial society, without forgetting specifically Australian inflections of r...
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