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Article: Why Australia? Or Against the Fragmentation of English Literary Studies.
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- Australian Literary Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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THE concept of Australian literary studies is becoming increasingly the object of critical debate as exemplified, for instance, by the forum in the previous issue of ALS and in Southerly (Carter; Dale; I. Henderson; M. Henderson; Hughes-D'Aeth; Moore; Syson; Treagus; Whitlock). However, in the academic circles that study the variant languages and literatures known as English, certain topics are more likely to be avoided than confronted. One of them is the question why European scholars should devote themselves -- if possible exclusively -- to one and only one extra-canonical literature, for example that of Australia? What objective mason, as opposed to perfectly legitimate ...