Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian LiteratureThis 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. |
Contents
Kate Grenvilles The Secret River | |
Kim Scott and Hazel | |
Brian Castros Birds of Passage | |
Christos Tsiolkas Dead Europe | |
Andrew McGahans | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian ... Ashley Barnwell,Joseph Cummins No preview available - 2020 |
Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian ... Ashley Barnwell,Joseph Cummins No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Aljaz Ancestor Game António archives argues Aunty Hazel Australian history Australian literature Benang Birds of Passage Castro chapter Chinese Chinese Australian Christos Tsiolkas complex confront contemporary context convict Dead Europe diasporic discuss dispossession emotional empathy European experience explore family historiography family history family secret Feng family fiction Flanagan fold of silence frontier violence genealogy ghosts Grenville Grenville’s haunting historian History Wars homeland Huggins identity imagination Indigenous Indigenous Australians inheritance intergenerational Ireland Irish Isaac John journey Kate Grenville Kayang Kim Scott knowledge Koch Koch's landscape literary Many-Coloured Land McGahan McIvor Melbourne memory studies Miller narrative Native Title Noongar nostalgia novel novelist photographs political postcolonial present reckoning recognise resonance River Guide role Sally Seamus Secret River settler colonial Shanghai Dancing social Sociology Steven stories storytelling Sydney tell texts Thornhill trauma Tsiolkas University Press unsettling vampire water hole White Earth William witness writing