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'It's a hungry home': postcolonial displacements, popular music and the sacred
This essay, through a theorized analysis of Australian popular song lyrics, investigates a range of understandings of “home”, including the exclusions and sacred connotations that inform the term. Against accusations of mere sentimentality or nostalgia regarding a desire for “home” as familiar and comforting and in response to Levinas's related arguments that a desire for home is at the root of splitting “humanity into natives and strangers”, it argues that it is necessary for postcolonial Australia to embrace “homelessness” at the heart of any understanding of “home”.
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Journal of postcolonial writingVolume
43Issue
2Pagination
216 - 231Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1744-9855eISSN
1744-9863Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2007, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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