Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138517981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 301 str.

Kelly Jean Butler

Opis

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Public Histories, Personal Stories
1.Witnessing the Stolen Generations
2."This Is How I'm Sorry": Creative Witnessing in Contemporary Australian Historical Fictions
3.Frontiers of Witnessing: History after Testimony
4.Witnessing UnAustralia: Asylum-Seeker Advocacy and the National Good
5."Do You Want the Truth or What I Said?": False Witnessing and the Culture of Denial
6.Witnessing (Dis)possession: Victims, Battlers, and "Ordinary" Australians
Conclusion: Witnessing Australian Stories
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Butler, Kelly Jean