Joanne Faulkner

Young and Free

[Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging philosophy with history, literature, film and testimony, this book examines the critical relationship between white Australian identity and the cultural priority of childhood in Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483068
• ISBN-10: 1783483067
• Artikelnr.: 42813301

Autorenporträt

Joanne Faulkner is ARC Future Fellow in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Childhood and the Oblivion of Memory
Part I: Child
1. Visions of Autonomy: Figures of the Child as Model of the Human
2. Phantasms of Subjection and the Oblivion of the Other
3. The Uncanny Child as Postcolonial Unconscious and Conscience
Part II: Memory
4. Children Lost and Stolen: Collective Memory, Childhood and the Stolen Generations
5. The Child as Witness
6. Nostalgia, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Community
Part III: History
7. 'Stronger Futures'? The Peculiar Temporalities of Postcolonial Community
8. The Emergent Community: Counting the Part that Has No Part
Conclusion: The Metonymic Drift of the Symptom; Between the Child and Politics
Bibliography
Index