This is the first book to provide a historical account of the publication and reception of South Asian anglophone writing from the 1930s to the present, based on original archival research drawn from a range of publishing houses. This comparison of succeeding generations of writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain examines how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed significantly throughout the twentieth century. Ranasinha shows how the aesthetic, cultural, and political context changed significantly for each generation, producing radically different kinds of writing and transforming the role of the postcolonial writer of South Asian origin. The extensive use of original materials from publishers’ archives shows how shifting political, academic, and commercial agendas in Britain and North America influenced the selection, content, presentation, and consumption of many of these texts. The differences between writers of different generations can thus in part be understood in terms of the different demands of their publishers and expectations of readers in each decade.
Essays Shino Konishi ‘Inhabited by a race of formidable giants’: French Explorers, Aborigines, and the Endurance of the Fantastic in the Great South Land, 1803 Kevin Murray Keys to the South Stephen Muecke Cultural Studies’ Networking Strategies in the South Raewyn Connell Extracts from Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science Margaret Jolly The South in Southern Theory: Antipodean Reflections on the Pacific Reviews Reviewed by David Carter The Book is Dead (Long Live the Book), by Sherman Young Reviewed by Paul Gillen The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia, by Melissa Harper Reviewed by Anne Maxwell Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand, edited by Laurence Simmons, and Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, edited by Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly Reviewed by Emily Potter Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica, by Tom Griffiths Eco-Humanities Corner Emily Potter and Paul Starr Australia and the New Geographies of Climate Change Val Plumwood Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling Val Plumwood (1939-2008) in memoriam
The story of American intervention in Vietnam begins with an alliance - the sometimes ambivalent, often contentious, and almost always misunderstood Franco-American alliance. Paris and Washington clashed repeatedly over how to respond to the dual threat of communism and nationalism in Vietnam when the forces of the Cold War and deconization collided there during the 1950s. When a colonial power leaves a former colony, the new state usually grapples with growing pains on its own. In this case, the South Vietnamese were never given the chance as the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration systematically replaced French control in South Vietnam with American influence. Why and how the United States did so are the core questions of this book.
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