| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages .) |
| Series |
Cross/cultures ; volume 184 |
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Cross/cultures ; 184
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| Contents |
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 |
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Carnivalesque: -CarpentariaConclusion; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
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 literary syncretisms with moments of undecidability. The analysis in this book draws on Renate Lachmann's theory of intertextuality to show how novels that blur boundaries without standing in for history are prone to intervene in cultural memory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective memory and literature -- Australia
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Aboriginal Australians in literature.
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Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Australian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Aboriginal Australians in literature
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Australian fiction
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Collective memory and literature
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004304086 |
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9004304088 |
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