Diaspora and colonialism in Australia in the 1920s: the case of Alekos Doukas's migrant 'Voyage South'

Petro Alexiou

Diaspora and colonialism in Australia in the 1920s: the case of Alekos Doukas's migrant 'Voyage South'

Petro Alexiou

Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies

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Abstract

This essay aims to locate a Greek migrant subject in Australia in the interwar years at the intersection of two tangential but related discourses of European settlement, that of the dominant white colonial discourse and that of the Greek diaspora which mediated the existence of Greek communities in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	206-229
Number of pages	24
Journal	Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand)
Volume	13
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

Greek diaspora
biography
colonial discourse
Greek communities
autobiographical narrative

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Diaspora and colonialism in Australia in the 1920s: the case of Alekos Doukas's migrant 'Voyage South'

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