Reckoning with the Past : Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature (Memory Studies: Global Constellations)

Barnwell, Ashley/ Cummins, Joseph

Routledge（2018/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 132 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138088955
• DDC分類 820.93550994

Full Description

This 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

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