Polyculturalism and Discourse
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-90-420-2307-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume gathers together research by ten scholars engaging with multicultural discourse in Australia and Germany. The term 'polyculturalism' rather than 'multiculturalism' is employed deliberately to re-open a space in which the workings of discourse on culturally diverse societies, both as archive or practice, and as intervention, can be considered in greater depth. The inter-cultural perspective and wide range of disciplinary affiliations exhibited by the essays in this volume contribute to this goal: whereas the majority of discourse analytical work addresses the diversity of speaking positions, as well as the arbitrariness of ascribed meanings, within a historical framework delimited by national boundaries and disciplinary boundaries, the texts collected here transgress this perspective in working comparatively between Australia and Germany.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2307-9 (9789042023079)
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Anja Schwarz holds an MA in Cultural Studies and is a junior lecturer and doctorial candidate in English at the Freie Universtaet Berlin. Her PhD project 'Twixt Land and Sea'. The Beach as (Post)Colonial Paradigm is due for completion in summer 2007. She has published on multicultural discourse in Germany and Australia, TV re-enactments, as well as the interrelations of gender and memory.
Russell West-Pavlov is a Professor at the Free University of Berlin. He has published most recently Spatial Representations on the Jacobean Stage (2002), Transcultural Graffiti (2005) and Bodies and their Spaces (2006).
Russell West-Pavlov is a Professor at the Free University of Berlin. He has published most recently Spatial Representations on the Jacobean Stage (2002), Transcultural Graffiti (2005) and Bodies and their Spaces (2006).
Content
Russell WEST-PAVLOV and Anja SCHWARZ: Introduction
A. Dirk MOSES: Coming to Terms with Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia
Steffi HOBUss: "Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel": Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English
Anja SCHWARZ: Strategic Uses of Multiculturalism in Germany and Australia
Katharine GELBER: Privileged Discourses of Hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the
Stolen Generation
Russell WEST-PAVLOV: Discourses of Uprooting, Discourses of Re-Routing. Autobiographical Discourse
and Cultural Nomadism in Foucault, Castro and Flusser
Tim MEHIGAN: Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film
from the 1970s to the 1990s
Fiona ALLON: "We will decide who comes to this country": Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary
Ulrich LOELKE: Von der Expansion zur Lokalisierung der Wissenschaften in multikulturellen Gesellschaften: Australische und Europaeische Erfahrungen
Nicholas K. WHITE: Negotiating Nationhood in Multi-Ethnic Germany: an Australian Perspective
Justine LLOYD and Anja SCHWARZ: The Pacific Solution meets Fortress Europe: Emerging Parallels in
Transnational Refugee Regimes
Index
Notes on Contributors
A. Dirk MOSES: Coming to Terms with Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia
Steffi HOBUss: "Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel": Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English
Anja SCHWARZ: Strategic Uses of Multiculturalism in Germany and Australia
Katharine GELBER: Privileged Discourses of Hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the
Stolen Generation
Russell WEST-PAVLOV: Discourses of Uprooting, Discourses of Re-Routing. Autobiographical Discourse
and Cultural Nomadism in Foucault, Castro and Flusser
Tim MEHIGAN: Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film
from the 1970s to the 1990s
Fiona ALLON: "We will decide who comes to this country": Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary
Ulrich LOELKE: Von der Expansion zur Lokalisierung der Wissenschaften in multikulturellen Gesellschaften: Australische und Europaeische Erfahrungen
Nicholas K. WHITE: Negotiating Nationhood in Multi-Ethnic Germany: an Australian Perspective
Justine LLOYD and Anja SCHWARZ: The Pacific Solution meets Fortress Europe: Emerging Parallels in
Transnational Refugee Regimes
Index
Notes on Contributors