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Constructing the metropolitan homeland: the literatures of the white settler societies of New Zealand and Australia

This essay came from an invited keynote address to the Third International IDEA conference held by the Department of English Language and Literature at Ege University, Izmir. Turkey. My focus on the diasporic writing of white settler societies of New Zealand and Australia tracing its relation to the metropolitan homeland of Great Britain, was welcomed by English staff at Ege University who wished to introduce postcolonial studies into the English syllabus. In writing the introduction (v-xxi)I integrated the essays within three sub-disciplinary areas -- Literature, Language and Linguistics, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies - introducing postcolonial theory as integral to interdisciplinary enquiry and stressing the relevance of postcolonial writing.