Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367582593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 140 str.

Ashley Barnwell; Joseph Cummins

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.