The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781787072640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 268 str.

Geoff Rodoreda

Opis

The Mabo court decision - which acknowledged indigenous people's presence in the land, in history, and in public affairs in Australia - challenged previous ways of thinking about Australian history and culture. This is the first study of the impact of this decision on Australian fiction, focusing on nineteen important contemporary novels.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Four Core Post-Mabo Novels - Re-writing the Past: Mabo and History - Re-writing the Present: Mabo and Contemporary Australia - Sovereignty: Mabo and Aboriginal-Authored Fiction - Conclusion: Dominant, Residual and Emergent Cultures

O autorze

Geoff Rodoreda is a lecturer in the English literature department at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His PhD at the University of Stuttgart focused on post-Mabo discourses in contemporary Australian fiction. His teaching and research interests include Australian literature, history and culture, Anglophone-African literatures, and contemporary British literature and culture. He previously worked as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide and Darwin.