Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Intervening in the racial imaginary: ‘mixed race’ and resistance in contemporary Australian Literature University of Sydney 2014 243 pages Lyn Sue Dickens A thesis submitted in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences This thesis examines the extent to which three contemporary Australian novels can be…
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Transpacific Mixed-Race Literatures: A Reading and Dialogue (Sawyer Seminar IX) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 351/352 Sunday, 2014-04-06, 10:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) How do Transpacific mixed-race authors inscribe and represent their heritage in their artistic representations? Are there common tropes or literary forms that inform these novels?…
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Racial Ambiguity and Whiteness in Brian Castro’s Drift Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia Volume 2, Number 2, 2009 pages 113-126 ISSN 2013-6897 Marilyne Brun, Lecturer in Postcolonia Studies Université Nancy 2 This article focuses on Drift, the fifth novel of contemporary Australian writer, Brian Castro, and concentrates on the ambiguous racial…
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Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro University of Melbourne Université Toulouse-le Mirail 2010 Marilyne Brun PhD thesis, Arts – School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Université Toulouse-le Mirail. This thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary Australian writer born in…