Migrant Writing in Multicultural Australia: The Case of the Greeks

Abstract

Through the literary writings of the Greeks in Australia, this paper examines the position of migrants’ writing in relation to the national body of literature to which it belongs -whether this be Australian literature of the writer’s homeland. It is shown that to whichever body the literature belongs it will remain a sub-category as long as it is classified and examined separately to the main body of the literature. Furthermore, sub-categorization diminishes not only the stature of migrant’s literature, but also the central body itself. Thus whichever national literature a writer belongs to, his works must be examined as a part of its central core and not as part of the writing of a minority group.