Australian Literature

Graham Huggan
Towards the end of 2005, as this book was nearing completion, there were ugly scenes at Cronulla and other beachside suburbs in Sydney. White and Lebanese youth squared off in a series of violent inpromptu encounters which, leaving bystanders bruised and property vandalized, propelled a nation that had long prided itself on its reputation for interethnic tolerance into a state of much-publicized collective shock. Were these race riots or not? Perhaps, as Cornel West had argued of the much more serious upheavals in LA more than a decade before, easy terms such as ‘race riot’ and ‘class rebellion’ are not applicable in such cases; rather, what was being witnessed in Cronulla and elsewhere was a ‘multi-racial, trans-class …display of justified social rage’ (West 1994: 3). ‘There is no escape from [the] interracial interdependence [of America]’, suggested West in the wake of the 1992 turmoil in LA, ‘yet enforced racial hierarchy dooms us as a nation to collective paranoia and hysteria—the unmaking of any democratic order’ (West 1994: 8).

جهت استعلام قيمت و سفارش چاپ اين محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرماييد