Title

Convicts, Call Centres and Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian globalising of the Australian Imagination.

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

February 2006

Publication Details

This paper was originally presented as Sharrad, P, Convicts, Call Centres and Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian globalising of the Australian Imagination, at the Centre for Postcolonial Writing, Monash University “Globalisation and Postcolonial Writing” conference, University of Calcutta, February 2006. Under consideration for publication in proceedings.

Abstract

This paper considers a history of imaginative links between Australia and India, offering readings of Suneeta Perez da Costa's 'Homework' and Christopher Cyrill's 'The Tributaries of the Ganges'.