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_bK54 2019
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100 1 _aKhatun, Samia,
_eauthor.
_959776
245 1 0 _aAustralianama :
_bthe South Asian odyssey in Australia /
_cSamia Khatun.
246 3 8 _aAustralianama
260 _aLondon :
_bHurst Publishers,
_c2018.
300 _axviii, 286 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
520 _aThe first major history of South Asian migration to Australia. Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australianama (The Book of Australia) composes a history of Muslims in Australia through Sufi poetry, Urdu travel tales, Persian dream texts and Arabic concepts, as well as Wangkangurru song-poetry, Arabunna women's stories and Kuyani histories, leading readers through the rich worlds of non-white peoples that are missing from historical records. Khatun challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonised. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonised geographies, Australianama shows that stories in colonised tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.
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650 0 _aEast Indians
_zAustralia
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aAcculturation
_zAustralia
_xHistory.
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651 0 _aAustralia
_xHistory.
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852 _aAyesha Abed Library
_cGeneral Stacks
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