{"title":"Hsu-Ming Teo's Post-Multicultural Affective Improvisations on Love","authors":"Sneja Gunew","doi":"10.13110/antipodes.33.2.0378","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay juxtaposes the academic writings of the Chinese Malaysian Australian writer Hsu-Ming Teo with two or her novels. The essay traces how the cultural politics of multiculturalism have changed over the past decades in Australia. Using the framework of Jean-François Lyotard's future anterior, in which post-multiculturalism is imagined as going back to find elements left out of the current historicizing of multiculturalism, Gunew situates Teo's work in a critically astute \"uncomfortable cosmopolitanism\" pervaded by her interest in the affective charge contained in contemporary popular romance writing that deals with intercultural relationships.","PeriodicalId":41595,"journal":{"name":"Antipodes-A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature","volume":"14 1","pages":"378 - 392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Antipodes-A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13110/antipodes.33.2.0378","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay juxtaposes the academic writings of the Chinese Malaysian Australian writer Hsu-Ming Teo with two or her novels. The essay traces how the cultural politics of multiculturalism have changed over the past decades in Australia. Using the framework of Jean-François Lyotard's future anterior, in which post-multiculturalism is imagined as going back to find elements left out of the current historicizing of multiculturalism, Gunew situates Teo's work in a critically astute "uncomfortable cosmopolitanism" pervaded by her interest in the affective charge contained in contemporary popular romance writing that deals with intercultural relationships.