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The pain of unbelonging : alienation and identity in Australasian literature /
Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of aliena...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
91. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientati. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xliii, 210 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781429480833 1429480831 904202187X 9789042021877 9789401204279 9401204276 |
| ISSN: | 0924-1426 ; |