Australianama

The South Asian Odyssey in Australia

Samia Khatun

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Queensland Univ. Press
20 August 2019

History; Local history

The 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.

By: Samia Khatun
Imprint: Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9780702262623
ISBN 10: 0702262625
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 20 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Samia Khatun is a writer, filmmaker and cultural historian whose documentaries have screened on SBS-TV and ABC-TV. She was born in Dhaka, educated in Sydney and has held research fellowships in Berlin, Dunedin, New York and Melbourne. She has recently been appointed as Director for the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of London.