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concluding chapter with her discussion of postcolonial poetry by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian poets.
The thirteen contributors hail from Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe, making the collection truly international and demonstrating the global interest in Australian literature. Clearly, Australian literary studies is not a field in which research is conducted solely by Australians or Australian-based scholars, nor should it be. A quick perusal of this volume's bibliography will provide ample evidence that scholarship on Australian literature is produced by researchers from many nations and published in many venues around the world. The seven non-Australian contributors to this volume provide a rich variety of fascinating perspectives and insights, demonstrating that Australian literature is a global concern (in every sense of the phrase).