Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators (Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture, 1) - Softcover

Gunew, Sneja

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785272470 ISBN 13: 9781785272479

Publisher: Anthem Press, 2019

Synopsis

‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard’s concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the elements within multiculturalism that have been forgotten in its contemporary denigration. Gunew attaches this discussion to debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade, creating a framework for re-evaluating post-multicultural and Indigenous writers in settler colonies such as Canada and Australia. She links these writers with transnational writers across diasporas from Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, China and India to construct a new framework for literary and cultural studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Sneja Gunew has taught in England, Australia and Canada. She has published widely on multicultural, postcolonial and feminist critical theory.

Review:

Translation Literature November 2017 Issue

Journal of Intercultural Studies

Recherche Littéraire, Literary Research

"At a time when global media and markets give us the illusion of belonging to a shared world, the book acts as a sober reminder that the nagging question to the 'strangers', ... has shifted from 'where are you coming from?' to 'what do we do with them now?'"
--Chantal Zabus, "Recherche littéraire" Literary Research Vol 34 (Été 2018 / Summer 2018).

Canadian Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1785272470
• ISBN 13: 9781785272479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166