Cultural memory and literature : re-imagining Australia's past /

Cultural memory involves a community's shared memories, the selection of which is based on current political and social needs. A past that is significant to a national group is re-imagined by generating new meanings that replace earlier certainties and fixed symbols or myths. This creates liter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Molloy, Diane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 184.
Temas:
1900 - 2099
Collective memory and literature > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians in literature.
Australian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Australian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Mémoire collective et littérature > Australie.
Australiens (Aborigènes) dans la littérature.
Roman australien > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aboriginal Australians in literature
Australian fiction
Collective memory and literature
Australia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cultural Memory and Literature: Re-Imagining Australia's Past; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Memory and Literature; Literary Forms and Cultural Memory; Australian Politics and Literature; Memory, Testimony, and Trauma; Stolen-Generations Literature: -My Place and Rabbit-Proof Fence; Historical Fiction: -The Secret River, The Lieutenant, and Sarah Thornhill; Naming and Memory Places: -Remembering Babylon; Intertextuality: -The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow and The Tall Man; Menippean Satire and Polyphony: -Benang: from the heart and That Deadman Dance.
  • Carnivalesque: -CarpentariaConclusion; Works Cited; Index.

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