UID:
almahu_9949384345402882
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
1 edition.
ISBN:
9781315109534
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1315109530
Series Statement:
Memory studies: Global constellations
Content:
This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation's colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors' often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. An important contribution to the emerging global conversation about multidirectional memory and the need to attend to the effects of colonisation, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary field of scholarly readers.
Note:
Dredging up family secrets : Kate Grenville's The secret river and Richard Flanagan's Death of a river guide -- Confronting the "double fold of silence" : Kim Scott and Hazel Brown's Kayang & me and Sally Morgan's My place -- Belonging across generations : Brian Castro's Birds of passage and Shanghai nights, and Alex Miller's THe ancestor game -- Returning to homelands : Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe and Christopher Koch's The many-coloured land : a return to Ireland -- Listening to the ghosts of the past : Andrew McGahan's The white earth -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Barnwell, Ashley. Reckoning with the past. New York : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9781138088955
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315109534
