Visions of Western Sydney in Howard's Australia: Luke Carman's An Elegant Young Man, Peter Polites's Down the Hume and Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Lebs.
The article explores the visions of Western Sydney, New South Wales under the coalition government of then Australian Prime Minister John Howard between 1996 and 2007 in Luke Carman's "An Elegant Young Woman," "Down the Hume" by Peter Polites and "The Lebs" by Michael Mohammed Ahmed. It examines the...
| Publicado en: | Australian Literary Studies Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 1 - 19 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
| Publicado: |
Australian Literary Studies
2022
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| Sumario: | The article explores the visions of Western Sydney, New South Wales under the coalition government of then Australian Prime Minister John Howard between 1996 and 2007 in Luke Carman's "An Elegant Young Woman," "Down the Hume" by Peter Polites and "The Lebs" by Michael Mohammed Ahmed. It examines the novels' shared resistance to citizen norm, or Australian nationalism, and discusses the problem with Australian multiculturalism and the stereotypical representation of the Greater Western Sydney. |
|---|