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Subject(s)

• Multiculturalism—Australia [Browse]
• Multiculturalism—Germany [Browse]
• German language—Discourse analysis [Browse]
• English language—Discourse analysis [Browse]

Related name

• Schwarz, Anja, 1973- [Browse]
• West-Pavlov, Russell, 1964- [Browse]

Series

• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 39. [More in this series]
• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 39 [More in this series]

Summary note

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 p.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

English or German with abstracts in English.

Contents

• Polyculturalism and Discourse; Contents; Introduction; Coming to Terms with Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia; "Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel": Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English; Strategic Uses of Multiculturalism in Germany and Australia; Privileged Discourses of Hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the Stolen Generation; Discourses of Uprooting, Discourses of Re-Routing: Autobiographical Discourse and Cultural Nomadism in Foucault, Castro and Flusser.
• Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film from the 1970s to the 1990s"We will decide who comes to this country": Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary; Von der Expansion zur Lokalisierung der Wissenschaften in multikulturellen Gesellschaften: Australische und europäische Erfahrungen; Negotiating Nationhood in Multi-Ethnic Germany: an Australian Perspective; The Pacific Solution meets Fortress Europe: Emerging Parallels in Transnational Refugee Regimes; Index; Notes on Contributors.

ISBN

• 9042023074
• 9789042023079
• 9781435612150 (electronic bk.)

OCLC

181068786

RCP

H - S

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