Sneja Gunew - Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators

Post-Multicultural Writers as
Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators

Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture

Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture specialises in quality, innovative research in Australian literary studies. The series publishes work that advances contemporary scholarship on Australian literature conceived historically, thematically and/or conceptually. We welcome well-researched and incisive analyses on a broad range of topics: from individual authors or texts to considerations of the field as a whole, including in comparative or transnational frames.

Series Editors

Katherine Bode Australian National University, Australia

Nicole Moore University of New South Wales, Australia

Editorial Board

Tanya Dalziell University of Western Australia, Australia

Delia Falconer University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

John Frow University of Sydney, Australia

Wang Guanglin Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China

Ian Henderson Kings College London, UK

Tony Hughes-DAeth University of Western Australia, Australia

Ivor Indyk University of Western Sydney, Australia

Nicholas Jose University of Adelaide, Australia

James Ley Sydney Review of Books, Australia

Susan Martin La Trobe University, Australia

Andrew McCann Dartmouth College, USA

Lyn McCredden Deakin University, Australia

Elizabeth McMahon University of New South Wales, Australia

Brigitta Olubas University of New South Wales, Australia

Anne Pender University of New England, Australia

Fiona Polack Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Sue Sheridan University of Adelaide, Emeritus, Australia

Ann Vickery Deakin University, Australia

Russell West-Pavlov Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Germany

Lydia Wevers Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Gillian Whitlock University of Queensland, Australia

Post-Multicultural Writers as
Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators

Sneja Gunew

CONTENTS

Written over the past decade, this book represents the ways in which I process the key questions that have animated all my work: how to render more complex the monolithic cultural entities that national cultures are always threatening to become. It also represents my further engagement with the differences and similarities I found in moving from an Australian to a Canadian context 23 years ago.

My thanks to the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for funding early parts of this project.

My profound thanks to those Australian colleagues who have kept me in touch with developments in Australian literary and cultural studies: Wenche Ommundsen, Nikos Papastergiadis, Ivor Indyk, Fazal Rizvi, Gillian Whitlock, Susan Sheridan, Nicole Moore, Carole Ferrier, Brigitta Olubas, Robyn Morris, Antigone Kefala and Helen Nickas. My thanks, equally, to those Canadian colleagues who have helped me become more immersed in comparable Canadian debates: Margery Fee, Chris Lee, Renisa Mawani and Laura Moss. And profound thanks as well to my students, particularly those graduate students who entrusted me with being their supervisor or on their supervisory committees: Kim Snowden, Terri Tomsky, Daniella Trimboli, Bianca Rus and Michelle OBrien.

Versions of some of the chapters have appeared in the following:

Serial Accommodations: Diasporic Womens Writing, Canadian Literature 196 (Spring: 2008), 615.

Resident Aliens: Diasporic Womens Writing, Contemporary Womens Writing. Oxford. 2009, 3: 2846.

Estrangement as Pedagogy: The Cosmopolitan Vernacular. In After Cosmopolitanism. Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin and Bolette Blaagard. 132148. London: Routledge (GlassHouse Book), 2013.

We the Only Witness of Ourselves: Re-reading Antigone Kefalas Work. In Antigone Kefala: A Writers Journey. Edited by Vrasidas Karalis and Helen Nickas. 210220. Melbourne: Owl Publishing, 2013.

Back to the Future: Post-Multiculturalism; Immanent Cosmopolitanism. In The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Sybille De La Rosa and Darren OByrne. 8197. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.