Polyculturalism and discourse / edited by Anja Schwarz and Russell West-Pavlov.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries
• TeilnehmendeR: Schwarz, Anja.; West-Pavlov, Russell, 1964-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 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 1970's to the 1990's /; “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.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401205183; 1435612159
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Anja Schwarz and Russell West-Pavlov.

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 positions, as well as the arbitrariness of ascribed meanings, within a historical framework delimited by national boundaries and disciplinary boundaries, the texts collected here transgress this perspective in working comparatively between Australia and Germany.