Ashley Barnwell

Reckoning with the Past

Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature

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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 bo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cummins, Joseph

ISBN: 978-1-351-61336-1
EAN: 9781351613361
Produktnummer: 29455860
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 140 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 5'414 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Ashley Barnwell is Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Joseph Cummins has a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and serves on the board of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.