Not Quite White (Enough): Intersecting Ethnic and Gendered Identities in Looking for Alibrandi

Authors

  • Kathryn McInally Deakin University, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1196

Keywords:

Looking for Alibrandi, gendered identity, multiculturalism, whiteness, racial indentity

Abstract

The intersections between raced and gendered identity, treating identity-formation as a function of biological, cultural and ideological codifications that cannot be readily disentangled is assessed by an analysis of the novel 'Looking for Alibrandi.' This novel embodies this intersection of identity politics in ways that suggest that rethinking multiculturalism and whiteness also mean rethinking gender.

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Author Biography

  • Kathryn McInally, Deakin University, Australia

    Kate McInally completed her PhD candidate at Deakin University where she teaches children’s literature. She is currently a Research Fellow with Clare Bradford and Wenche Ommundsen in the ARC Discovery Project ‘Building Cultural Citizenship: Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature’. Her particular interests are contemporary Australian young adult fiction and queer theory.

References

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Hage, G. 1998, White Nation: fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society, Pluto Press, N.S.W.

P.M Howard’s Australia Day Address to the National Press Club, January 25, 2006. http://australianpolitics.com.news/2006/01/06-01/25_howard.html

Marchetta, M. 1992 (2000), Looking for Alibrandi, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia

Stratton, J. 1999, ‘Multiculturalism and the whitening machine, or how Australians become white’, The Future of Australian Multiculturalism, Eds. Ghassan Hage and Rowanne Couch, Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, N.S.W., pp.163-188.

Stratton, J. 2005, ‘Lost in music: popular music, multiculturalism and Australian film', http://espace.lis.curtin.edu.au/archive/00001115/02/LostinMusicRCredit%5B2%5D.pdf

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Published

2007-12-01

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2007)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

“Not Quite White (Enough): Intersecting Ethnic and Gendered Identities in Looking for Alibrandi” (2007) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 17(2), pp. 59–66. doi:10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1196.