"Moon over Melbourne" was Ouyang Yu's first English-language collection after his immigration from China to Australia and is the quintessential record of the immigrant experience, a mixture of delight and rage, of wonder and frustration. First published in 1995, this expanded edition now brings his work to a wider audience: his brutally frank, disturbing narratives and lyrics speak across borders. Ouyang Yu is a controversial figure within Australian literature, sometimes characterised as 'the angry Chinese poet.' His work captures the frustrations (personal, social, professional and sexual) of the migrant experience and hits out at the indifference and hostility with which Australia has greeted recent waves of Asian immigration. His raw, uncompromising style (according to one critic, the 'deliberate unloveliness' of his language) challenges literary as well as social establishments at the same time as it engages in courageous acts of introspection and self-criticism.Ouyang typifies the new generation of post-colonial writers and intellectuals who can write with detachment about the forces of globalisation and their impact on East-West relations and at the same time acknowledge their complex and often painful impact on their own life and work.
- ISBN10 090756285X
- ISBN13 9780907562856
- Publish Date 25 September 2005
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Shearsman Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 128
- Language English