Embodying a Racialised Multiculturalism: Strategic Essentialism and Lived Hybridities in Hoa Pham’s No One Like Me

Authors

  • Debra Dudek University of Wollongong, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1194

Keywords:

No One Like Me, Hoa Pham, Asian-Australian studies, multiculturalism, race, gender

Abstract

A brief analysis of Hoa Pham's novel is presented by situating it within discourses of multiculturalism and the field of Asian-Australian Studies. The negotiation of tension in Hoa Pham's junior fiction novel 'No One Like Me' is examined and it is argued that it strategically essentialises race and gender in order to destabilise homogenised conceptions of these categories of identity.

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Author Biography

  • Debra Dudek, University of Wollongong, Australia

    Debra Dudek is a Lecturer in English Literatures and a Deputy Director of the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies at the University of Wollongong. She has published internationally on Children’s Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Comparative Literature. In her current research, she is analysing representations of activism in Children’s Literature.

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2007-12-01

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How to Cite

“Embodying a Racialised Multiculturalism: Strategic Essentialism and Lived Hybridities in Hoa Pham’s No One Like Me” (2007) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 17(2), pp. 43–49. doi:10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1194.

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