Ashley Barnwell, Joseph Cummins

Reckoning with the Past (eBook, ePUB)

Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation's colonial past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351613354
• Artikelnr.: 56843368

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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