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Article: Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism.(Book Review)
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- October 1, 2005
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Austral-Asian Encounters. From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism, edited by Cynthia vanden Driesen and Satendra Nandan. New Delhi: Prestige, 2003. US$30.
Austral-Asian Encounters is a collection of papers presented at the Second International Asian-Australasian Association for the Study of Australasia (AASA, formerly The Asian Association for the Study of Australia) Conference, Mysore 2000. (2) As the title suggests, this volume covers a range of disciplines, though many papers are comparative examinations of Indian and Australian literary texts, while the focus on cross-cultural interactions is confined to those 'encounters' between India ...