2007, ISBN: 9789042023079

Editions Rodopi, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Designed to be multidisciplinary, these essays focus on the polycultural rather than the multicultural, giving room for new discour… Meer...

Editions Rodopi, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Designed to be multidisciplinary, these essays focus on the polycultural rather than the multicultural, giving room for new discourse and discovery about societies not only as a form of archive or practice but as a place of intervention. Contributors from Australia and German therefore find common ground but extraordinary insight, addressing such topics as coming to terms with genocidal pasts in comparative perspective; links between Kanak Sprak and Aboriginal English; strategic uses of multiculturalism; privileged discourses of hate in the Holocaust and the Stolen Generation; autobiography and cultural nomadism in the thought of Foucault, Castro and Flusser; another modernity in German and Australian film from the 1970s to the 1990s; inclusion, exclusion and the national imaginary in immigration; localizing multiculturalism, negotiation nationhood in multi-ethnic Germany from an Australian perspective; and emerging parallels in transnational refugee regimes. (2007 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR), Editions Rodopi, 2007, 0<

ISBN: 9789042023079

This volume gathers together research by ten scholars engaging with multicultural discourse in Australia and Germany. The term 'polyculturalism' rather than 'multiculturalism' is employed… Meer...

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. Polyculturalism and Discourse. Schwarz, Anja / West-Pavlov, Russel, Rodopi<