Humanities Research Centre
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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Humanities Research Centre
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Dr John Docker
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John Docker is a well-known literary and cultural
critic, and public intellectual. He has written on contemporary theories
of culture, identity, and diaspora; Orientalism and exoticism; monotheism
and polytheism; and genocide in relation to both the Enlightenment and
settler colonialism. His most recent books are 1492: The Poetics
of Diaspora (2001) and, with Ann Curthoys, Is History Fiction?
(2005).