When Novels Perform History: Dramatizing the Past in Australian and Canadian Literature

ISBN-13: 9781906165840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str.

Rebecca Waese

Opis

How do you bring history alive? This book focuses on contemporary Australian and Canadian literature to explore how writers use drama and theatre to engage readers with historical events. Discussions of award-winning writers such as Richard Flanagan, Daphne Marlatt, Peter Carey, Tomson Highway, Thomas Keneally and Guy Vanderhaeghe are included.

Recenzje

«The dramatic dichotomies of immersion vs estrangement provide the hermeneutic framework for this innovative take on recent Australian and Canadian fiction's engagement with history. Theoretically sophisticated and meticulously researched, When Novels Perform History studies the performative/theatrical modes deployed in well-selected examples of postcolonial historical fiction, offering ways to challenge national myths while telling (or, rather, dramatizing) the «untold histories».» - Linda Hutcheon, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Exploring History in Australian and Canadian Literature through Dramatic Modes - Melodrama in Thomas Keneally's The Playmaker and in David Musgrave's Glissando - Performing Identity in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen - Performing the Nation in Peter Carey's Illywhacker - Dramatic Modes and the Feminist Poetics of Enactment in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic - Performing History, Violence, and the Unsayable in Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish - Filmic and Dramatic Modes in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy - Taking It Further: Novels that Perform History Inside and Beyond Australian and Canadian Contexts.

O autorze

Rebecca Waese is a lecturer and researcher in English in the Department of Creative Arts and English at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and holds a PhD from York University. Her interests include adaptations and Australian and Canadian literature and theatre. She was awarded a Pro-Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award in July 2016 at La Trobe University and a La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in December 2016.