A Sense of exile : essays in the literature of the Asia-Pacific Region / edited by Bruce Bennett ; associated editor, Susan Miller.

The essays in this volume, which focus on the theme of exile, were selected from a longer list of papers delivered at a symposium on literature in the Asia-Pacific region which took place at the University of Western Australia in December 1987. The symposium was supported by UNESCO and hosted by the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia. It was the third in a series of research-oriented symposia, held at approximately biennial intervals at the National University of Singapore and the University of Western Australia. These symposia are designed to bring together scholars, teachers and writers from the Asia-Pacific region to explore literary and cultural issues of common concern. Contributors to the 1987 symposium, whether as presenters of papers or as readers of their work came from Australia, China, Denmark, Fiji, France, India, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Some were native to the countries they now inhabit, others were immigrant. They have in common a sense of the urgent relevance of the theme of exile in contemporary literature of life.