ix, 244 pages ; 21 cm500 ## Includes bibliographical references
Contents
Exiles in their own country: 'Fringedwellers' and 'The Fringedwellers' / Veronica Brady -- Twice-removed: Aboriginal and immigrant writing in Australia / Kateryna Olijnyk Arthur
Summary
Includes a brief review of the two papers p. 3; Brady's account of contemporary Aboriginal culture analyses two books and a film, and suggests Aboriginal people may be in a state of diaspora not exile, and finishes with a view of Aboriginal suffering on one hand, but on the other the profound inadequacy of the culture which condemns them for this suffering p. 111-117; Arthur finds parallels in linguistic and political positions between Aboriginal expressions of exile and those of recent immigrant writers, and describes changes in the way both groups are presenting themselves in writing p. 119-129
Notes
"The essays ... were selected from a longer list of papers delivered at a symposium on literature in the Asia-Pacific region ... ."Introd., p. 1
