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Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia

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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 colonized by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora.
Australia has long been an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world, today the site of military infrastructure central to the surveillance of 'Muslim-majority' countries across the region. Imperial knowledges from Australian territories contribute significantly to the Islamic-Western binary of the post- Cold War era. In narrating a history of Indian Ocean connections from the perspectives of those colonized by the British, Khatun highlights alternative contexts against which to consider accounts of non-white people.
Australianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonized geographies, Khatun shows that stories in colonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0190922605
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0190922603
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    February 15, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
  7. Print length
    288 pages
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"Every page of this iridescent books shimmers with insight. Khatun makes the world anew, drawing Australia into Indian Ocean networks, languages, stories and intellectual traditions. Exquisitely written and ingeniously crafted by a superb scholar-storyteller, Australianama will become a classic." -- Isabel Hofmeyr, Global Distinguished Professor, NYU and Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand

"By delving deep into the Australian interior, Khatun has brought forth a brilliant postcolonial history for our times. Australianama eschews the conventional migrant narrative in favor of a startlingly original perspective on settler colonialism." -- Marilyn Lake, Professional Fellow in History, University of Melbourne

"Khatun's wonderful work gives us very new ways to understand 'Australia', challenging the simplistic binaries of colonial histories. It threads us all--women and men--into stories telling different histories and so offering hopes of new futures." -- Heather Goodall, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Technology Sydney

"A tour de force. Khatun weaves together an extraordinary range of powerful South Asian and Aboriginal narratives from across Australia, showing how stories in colonized tongues can transform our understandings of past and present, and point the way to a more hopeful future." -- Catherine Hall, Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London

"A riveting and timely intervention in Global feminist and migration histories, Australianama is a pioneering excavation of an Australian Aboriginal archive of memory, revealing tales of Muslim prophets, 'Afghan' camel-drivers and other non-white working groups and their dreamworlds." -- Indrani Chatterjee, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin

"At its heart is a manifesto against the structures that silence and objectify colonised people, the myths of 'blank space' and the prevalent belief in the superiority of European thought. .... an exciting addition to Australian postcolonial history."-- History Today


"Highly original, Khatun offers a new basis for storytelling, knowledge and history . . . Australianama shines a brilliant light on desert, mosque, Aboriginal, South Asian and British peoples. What emerges is a beautifully crafted new stage for historical understanding, fresh actors and a wholly new language of vision."-- Ernest Scott Prize 2019


"This is a compelling book, not only because of its lucid prose and deep research, but because of the intensely personal story threaded through its pages ... Writing with luminous prose, Khatun undertakes an innovative, carefully researched and critically analysed exploration of [the] South Asian experience."-- History Australia

"Epic in scale, Khatun's history is a note-perfect composition of imagination and deep research. [She] breathes new life into the "dead object" anthropological view of colonised people, most electrifyingly in her exposition of the links between South Asian migrants and Indigenous Australians.... In this book, Khatun has given us a scaffold to build a hopeful future."-- The Saturday Paper

"Khatun's virtuosity and sheer genius in tracking down ... records and reports, both in official as well as community archives, is a feat of scholarship that deserves to become a model of historical work everywhere". -- ^lSydney Review of Books

"Khatun's achievement in Australianama . . . is not simply the unearthing of new histories of South Asian and Muslim diasporas in Australia, but the posing of a new set of questions about the implications of seeing, reading, hearing and thinking otherwise, and about how these practices might rework our understanding of a national past."--Australian Historical Studies

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Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (February 15, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190922605
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190922603
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
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Samia Khatun is a historian because she once lost her way to a mathematics lecture at the University of Sydney. Since mistakenly attending a history class that day, she has chased truths about the past in Sydney, Antigua, Kolkata, Istanbul, Berlin, New York, Dunedin, Melbourne, London and Dhaka. Her documentaries have screened on ABC and SBS-TV in Australia. She is currently developing a history program at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh.

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Denis E. Mcgrath
5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden Treasure
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2020
A young doctoral candidate of South Asian origin doing research for her degree discovers what was thought to be a copy of the Q’ran in a old thatch roofed mosque in Broken Hill in the boonies of Australia. The book was a copy of Sufi Bengali poetry the “ Kasasol Ambia”. How it got there, led to questions and discoveries of the South Asian migration in and out of Austrailia as merchants and camel drivers, the rise of Australian white nationalism, the submersion of the Arborgines and their story from the landscape. South Asian and Aboriginal stories do not follow the traditional linear pattern of european history. These other traditions offer their participants a way of relating their experiences, dangers and dreams to those who care to hear. Samia helps us to understand that Austrialia was not just a collection of blank (white) spaces to be filled in by successive generations of white colonists. She invites us to a new vision of literature and story telling that reaches out to the dreamers of the Arabunna or the classic Persian poets of the past. This book is a refreshing encounter with sub-rosa history that needs to be told.
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Jim KABLE
5.0 out of 5 stars Revelations - Elevations - South Asians and the South Land
Reviewed in Australia on September 2, 2019
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Truly one of the great layered histories of Australia sparked by a Bengali book in a Mosque in Broken Hill. The meeting of colonised 19th century India and colonial Australia - pre- and post- Federation - Indigenous intersections - racism - Characters such as WA’s ugly Native Affairs dictator Auber Neville pre-figuring the current ugly of Immigration and “Border Control” Dutton - a world of cultural reference points and intricate dreams for interpretation - and a writer historian who hears in all kinds of unexpected ways the traces of our history in languages and laws and story. This is a way of seeing Australia far beyond tired tyrannies of distance. Brava, Samia Khatun! Hold up more mirrors for us to see ourselves more clearly.
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