From Cosmopolitanism to Planetary Conviviality: Suneeta Peres da Costa and Michelle de Kretser

Authors

  • Alejandra Moreno Álvarez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/co20172284-94

Keywords:

Cosmopolitanism, hybridity, postcolonialism, South Asian-Australian Literature.

Abstract

Veronica Brady, vigorous supporter of Aboriginal causes and deeply concerned with social-injustice issues, underlined that Anglo-Australians were to be excommunicated from the land until they would come to terms with it and its first peoples (in Jones 1997). Nearly twenty years after this statement was postulated, it is my purpose in this paper to look at the land from an Anglo-Australian and non-Indigenous Australian perspective in order to assess if Australian contemporary society has moved beyond what Brady considered a “super ego status” and reconciled to the presence not only of its Indigenous, but also its non-Indigenous others. To do so I will exemplify novels which are part of and influenced by the matrix of relations and social forces in which non-indigenous Australian writers are situated on, including Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework (1999) and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2013).  

Author Biography

Alejandra Moreno Álvarez

Alejandra Moreno Álvarez holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of Oviedo. She has been a research fellow at Rutgers University, Cornell University and the University of Leeds, among others. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Oviedo. Her teaching and research is centered in Literatures in English Language and Feminist and Postcolonial Theory. She is the author of Lenguajes comestibles: Anorexia, bulimia y su descodificación en la ficción de Margaret Atwood y Fay Weldon (Edicions UIB, 2009); El lenguaje trasgresor de las Ciborgs Literarias (ArCiBel Editores,2011) and Ambai: Un movimiento, una carpeta, algunas lágrimas / A movement, a folder, some tears (KRK, 2011).

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Published

2017-04-26