A Lost Dimension: The Immigrant’s Experience In the Work of David Malouf
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the immigrant's experience in some of Malouf's fiction and poetry. What I am not trying to do is to reconstruct Malouf's biography out of his literary works. Many of Malouf's novels, stories, and poems have clearly biographical elements, but I do not want to demonstrate the singular fate of David Malouf's family in Brisbane. What I am interested in is how the author portrays the experiences of three generations of migrants in Australia, experiences not necessarily his own.
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Published 1 May 1988 in Volume 13 No. 3. Subjects: Conflicts, Culture & cultural life, Egalitarianism, English people, Lebanese people, Migrant assimilation, Migrant experiences, David Malouf.
Cite as: Attar, Samar. ‘A Lost Dimension: The Immigrant’s Experience In the Work of David Malouf.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, 1988, doi: 10.20314/als.44863ad7f8.