Why Australia? Inquiries and possibilities in the United States

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ID2179530
AuthorsBrenda Machosky (0009-0009-5200-4883)
Year2022
Volume58
Issue1
Pages125-138
Publication date2022-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2021.2005317
OpenAlexW4200380919
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

This article surveys the state of Australian literary studies in the US as evidenced from the history of institutions and organizations and the scattered work of individual American academics. The two nations share a common settler colonial history and their literary identities have been subject to a "cultural cringe" against the British centre. A lack of popular knowledge about Australia in the US corresponds to almost non-existent course offerings in American tertiary education, although a limited but dedicated group of Australianists provide opportunities for students and critical inquiry. The article argues that US literary scholarship would benefit from analysis of the more overt effects of settler colonialism in Australia as a reflection of its own embedded colonialist ideologies. It also advocates for literature, particularly works by Aboriginal writers as alternative voices and an important critical tool against the dominant global epistemologies of science, economics, and politics

Art · Colonialism · History of literature · Ideology · Library science · Literary criticism · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Australian History and Society · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law

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