Reckoning with the Past

Reckoning with the Past

Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature

Cummins, Joseph; Barnwell, Ashley

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2018

132

Dura

Inglês

9781138088955

15 a 20 dias

340

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Introduction

1. Dredging Up Family Secrets - Kate Grenville's The Secret River and Richard Flanagan's Death of a River Guide

2. Confronting the 'Double Fold of Silence' - Kim Scott and Hazel Brown's Kayang & Me and Sally Morgan's My Place

3. Belonging Across Generations - Brian Castro's Birds of Passage and Shanghai Nights, and Alex Miller's The Ancestor Game

4. Returning to Homelands - Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe and Christopher Koch's The Many-Coloured Land: A Return to Ireland

5. Listening to the Ghosts of the Past - Andrew McGahan's The White Earth

Conclusion

Bibliography
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Young Man;Galway Bay;family historiographies;Post-war European Migrants;postcolonial;Post Mabo Era;Australian literature;Racist Social Attitudes;literature;Aboriginal Sacred Site;reckoning;Family Historiographer;past;Social Reproduction;Ashley Barnwell;Secret River;Joseph Cummins;River Guide;storytelling;Family History Narrative;memory;Multileveled Barriers;postcolonial identity;Dead Europe;Australian fiction;Record Testimonies;family histories;White Earth;colonial past;post-World War Ii Migration;national identity;Native Title;multidirectional memory;Irish Folk Music;social role;Christos Tsiolkas;revising;Settler Colonial Context;colonial injustice;national mythologies;sociology;literary studies;Kate Grenville;Richard Flanagan;Kim Scott;Brian Castro;Andrew McGahan;Christopher Koch