Table of Contents:
  • Australian Literature,Race,and the Politics of Location 1 1.1 Locating Australian literature 1 1.2 New racisms and culture wars 14 1.3 Postcolonial approaches 27 2. Beginning Again 35 2.1 Some ref lections on literary history 35 2.2 Founding f ictions 44 3. Interrogating Whiteness 71 3.1 Whiteness and core culture 71 3.2 Extra/ordinary whiteness 78 3.3 Shades of white 89 4. Multiculturalism and its Discontents 11 8 4.1 Demidenko,before and after 108 4.2 Discrepant multiculturalisms 116 4.3 Demystifying `Asia' 131