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dc.contributor.authorHenningsgaard, Per
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-24T05:24:55Z
dc.date.available2017-11-24T05:24:55Z
dc.date.created2017-11-24T04:48:52Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationHenningsgaard, P. 2016. Emerging from the rubble of postcolonial studies: Book history and Australian literary studies. Ilha do Desterro. 69 (2): pp. 117-126.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58294
dc.identifier.doi10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n2p117
dc.description.abstract

Scholars of Australian literature have engaged more frequently and enthusiastically with book history approaches than nearly any other postcolonial nations literary scholars. Several Australian scholars have suggested that book history has taken over where postcolonial studies left off. In their choice of subject matter, however, Australian book historians reinforce the very constructions of literary value they purport to dismantle, similar to how scholars of postcolonial studies have been critiqued for reinforcing the construction of colonial identities. Thus, this article looks to the intellectual history of postcolonial studies for examples of how it has responded to similar critiques. What is revealed is a surprising, and heretofore untold, relationship between book history and postcolonial studies, which focuses on their transnational potential versus their ability to remain firmly grounded in the national.

dc.relation.urihttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2016v69n2p117
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleEmerging from the rubble of postcolonial studies: Book history and Australian literary studies
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume69
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage117
dcterms.source.endPage126
dcterms.source.issn2175-8026
dcterms.source.titleIlha do Desterro
curtin.departmentDepartment of Communication and Cultural Studies
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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