First published 1993 by Westview Press
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This is a courageous book, exploring the frontiers and unspoken presumptions governing the ways in which otherness, ethnicity, race, migration, indigenous populations and social/linguistic estrangement have been thought, and have exceeded their cultural representations. This book addresses a broad international and multi-cultural audience with the key questions of cultural specificity, its social representations and its theoretical and political power in the context of key 1990s debates in contemporary feminist and postmodern theory. Beyond guilt or indulgence, the essays gathered here all engage with the complexities and contradictions that otherness poses in a culture and in knowledges that pose themselves as singular, unified and universally representative. A brave and dangerous project directed towards the key social and intellectual issues of a political world now in crisis. I heartily recommend this book for all readers of culture, our own, and the others that make it possible.
Elizabeth Grosz
Versions of Jacki Hugginss Pretty deadly tidda business have appeared in Hecate vol. 17, no. 1, 1991, I Indyk, ed.; Memory (Southerly 3, 1991) HarperCollins, Sydney, 1991; Second Degree Tampering , Sybylla Feminist Press, Melbourne, 1992. Laleen Jayamannes Love me tender, love me true was first published in Framework 38/39, 1992. A version of Smaro Kambourelis Of black angels and melancholy lovers appeared in Freelance (Saskatchewan Writers Guild), xxi, 5 (Dec. 1991-Jan. 1992). Roxana Ngs Sexism, racism and Canadian nationalism appeared in Race, Class, Gender: Bonds and Barriers, Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes: A Canadian Annual no. 5, 1989. Trinh Minh-has All-owning spectatorship has also appeared in her collection of essays When the Moon Waxes Red , Routledge, NY, 1991.
For permission to print illustrations we would like to thank: Tracey Moffatt, for stills from her film Night Cries . The Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs ().
While every effort has been made to trace the copyright for illustrative material used in this book, further information would be welcomed by the publisher.
Sneja Gunew taught for many years in literary studies at Deakin University and has recently accepted an appointment at the Uni-versity of Victoria, British Columbia. She has edited or co-edited four anthologies of women's and multicultural writings. She is the editor of Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct and A Reader in Feminist Knowledge (Routledge, 1990). She has pub-lished numerous critical essays (nationally and internationally) on feminist literary theory and on multiculturalism in its various formations. She co-edited Striking Chords: Multicultural Literary Interpretations (1992) and was one of the compilers of A Bibli-ography of Australian Multicultural Writers (1992).
Efi Hatzimanolis is completing her PhD on multicultural womens writing and is a casual teacher in the Department of English at the University of Wollongong. She has published articles on Australian immigrant writing in Hecate , the Journal of Narrative Technique, Span, and Striking Chords: Multicultural Literary Interpretations .
Jackie Huggins is an Aboriginal writer and historian from Queensland. Before starting her studies and writing she worked for many years in Aboriginal community affairs. In 198485 she headed a national unit comprising 50 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose task was to assess the needs of women, youth and children throughout Australia. She is now devoting time to preparing two collections of her unpublished essays and speeches on racism, history and colonialism and Aboriginal womens writings. A biography of her mother, Rita, has just been completed. She has published in various journals, particularly Hecate , and looks forward to rewriting school history textbooks to give greater emphasis to the Aboriginal experience.
Annamarie Jagose teaches in the Department of English at the University of Melbourne. She is currently working on a book which critiques the textual production of the category lesbian as synonymous with various spaces of alterity.
Laleen Jayamanne was born in Sri Lanka (1947). She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Ceylon, and received a Masters degree in Drama from New York University and a PhD in film from the University of New South Wales for a thesis on Positions of women in the Sri Lankan cinema 19471979. She teaches Film Studies at the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney.
Margaret Jolly is convenor of the Gender Relations Project, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. She studies anthropology and history at Sydney University and completed her doctorate there in 1979 on the changing gender relations among Sa speakers of south Pentecost Island. She has published many papers based on this research, in addition to the book Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu (Harwood Press, forthcoming). Before her secondment to ANU, she was senior lecturer in Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at Macquarie University, where she usually teaches on the ethnography and colonial history of the Pacific, women and development, feminist anthropology and illness and healing. Over the past five years she has also been researching and writing on women in the colonial history of Vanuatu, political hierarchy and domesticity, the politics of tradition, and women, nation and state in the Pacific.
Smaro Kamboureli is associate professor of Canadian literature at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her publications include On the Edge of Genre: The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem; A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing , co-edited with Shirley Neuman, and a long poem titled in the second person. She is currently working on a book about multiculturalism and ethnic writing in Canada.
Vicki Kirby works in several disciplinary areas, exploring questions about the representation of sexual and cultural differences through the problematic of embodiment. She has published in diverse journals, including Australian Feminist Studies, Mankind, Inscriptions: Journal of Women in Culture of Colonial Discourse, Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Anthropological Quarterly, West and Afterimage . She received her PhD from the History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her doctorate explores a corporal politics through deconstruction. In 1992 she was a visiting teaching fellow in Womens Studies at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She is based in San Diego, California.
