Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Australian Studies Centre
Contents
Introduction
‘An Introduction to Lives in Migration: Rupture and Continuity’
Martin Renes (Ed)
1
Section 1: Theory and History
1.
‘The Why and the “Therefore” of Human Migration. A Brief Overview’
Sue Ballyn
6
Section 2 : The Australian Paradigm
2.
‘The British Invasion of Australia. Convicts: Exile and Dislocation’
Sue Ballyn
16
3.
‘The Stolen Generations, a Narrative of Removal, Displacement and Recovery’
Martin Renes
30
4.
‘Looking Through Their Eyes’
Elisa Morera de la Vall
50
5.
‘Lives Broken by the Tiananmen Square Massacre: Consequences in Chinese-Australian Literature’
Catalina Ribas Segura
64
6.
‘Migration in Australian Detective Fiction’
Bill Phillips
80
Section 3: The Comparative View
7.
‘Migración y Contextos Multiculturales: Literaturas de Origen Srilanqués en Canadá y Australia’
Isabel Alonso-Breto
91
8.
‘La Representación Artística del Inmigrante y su Desarrollo Argumental: del Dibujo al Video-Arte’
Jaime de Córdoba Benedicto
109
A biographical note on the authors
124