Asian-Australian Writers: Bridging the Gap

Abstract: This paper examines interviews with, essays and literary products by Australian migrant women writers who migrated from their original countries in Southeast Asia. It investigates the writers’ in-betweenness in Australia, whose cultural, social and political rules are different. Drawing from Stuart Hall’s notion of cultural identity and diaspora (1990) and Jacques Derrida’s idea of conditional hospitality (2000b), this paper elaborates the migrant writers’ role in bridging the gap of Eastern and Western cultures through their literary work. The analysis shows that their cultural identity is transformed to narrow the gap and this transformative process is portrayed in their work.
Keywords: Asia, Australia, cultural gap, transformation, writers
Author: Amelberga Vita Astuti
Journal Code: jpkomunikasigg150001

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