Explores the impact of new Australian writers of a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Divided into five main approaches: theoretical perspectives, literary histories, author studies, subversive re-readings, and re-writings. Contributors include Lolo Houbein, Con Castan, Ania Walwicz and Ivor Indyk. Includes select bibliographies of multicultural writing, and Greek-Australian and Italo-Australian literature, a list of references and an index.