Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Studies

by Sneja Gunew

Outside the mainstream of literary production, ethnic minority writings can be perceived either as framing it or as constituting (in Jacques Derrida's phrase) a dangerous supplement. What happens to Australian literature when it is supplemented dangerously by a heterogeneous collection of writings variously described as migrant, ethnic minority or multicultural? Is ethnic difference as significant a factor in the critical interpretation of texts as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522846394
• ISBN13: 9780522846393
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 158 Pages