Seen Through Other Eyes: Reconstructing Australian Literature in India

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  • Paul Sharrad University of Wollongong

Keywords:

transnational, reception, India, curriculum, publishing

Abstract

Based on bibliographic surveys and interviews with students and teachers of Australian Literature in India, the paper assesses differences of context and reception overseas and how this reshapes meanings and forms of canons and fields as national literary constructs enter transnational networks.

Author Biography

Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong

Assoc. Prof. English Literatures at the University of Wollongong teaching postcolonial writing. Books on Raja Rao, Albert Wendt, Literary History and the Indian English Novel, plus several edited collections and articles ranging across Australia, the Pacific, India and elsewhere.

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Vol. 10 (2010): Currents, Cross-Currents, Undercurrents

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