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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Coming to Terms with Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia / A. Dirk Moses -- „Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel“: Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English / Steffi Hobuß -- Strategic Uses of Multiculturalism in Germany and Australia / Anja Schwarz -- Privileged Discourses of Hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the Stolen Generation / Katharine Gelber -- Discourses of Uprooting, Discourses of Re-Routing: Autobiographical Discourse and Cultural Nomadism in Foucault, Castro and Flusser / Russell West-Pavlov -- Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film from the 1970's to the 1990's / Tim Mehigan -- “We will decide who comes to this country”: Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary / Fiona Allon -- Von der Expansion zur Lokalisierung der Wissenschaften in multikulturellen Gesellschaften: Australische und europäische Erfahrungen / Ulrich Lölke -- Negotiating Nationhood in Multi-Ethnic Germany: an Australian Perspective / Nicholas K. White -- The Pacific Solution meets Fortress Europe: Emerging Parallels in Transnational Refugee Regimes / Justine Lloyd and Anja Schwarz -- Index -- Notes on Contributors.