Polyculturalism and Discourse (At the Interface, 39) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042023074 ISBN 13: 9789042023079

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9042023074
• ISBN 13: 9789042023079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279
• Editor: Schwarz Anja, West-pavlov Russell