Legitimating the personal voice: shame and the Stolen Generation testimony in Australia / Kay Schaffer -- Landscapes of memory / Sylvia Kleinert -- The well-intentioned imperialists: missionary textuality and (post) colonial politics / Anna Johnston -- Domionisation or infiltration: religion and the territorial imperative in post-colonial writing / Dorothy Lane -- A metahistory of of Commonwealth national literatures / Ken Goodwin -- Reconciliation and cultural (in)difference / Chris Prentice -- Resistance and reconciliation in David Malouf's The conversations at Curlow Creek / Stella Borg Barthet -- Aboriginal identity and representation: Ruby Langford's Don't take your love to town -- Mirroring amibivalences: resistance and reconciliation in South Asian Australia / Makarand Paranjape -- Making strange men: resistance and reconciliation in Kim Scott's Benang
Summary
Collection of 27 essays and papers by scholars international and Australian, addressing questions of race, class, gender, religion, war, politics and reconciliation prospects
Notes
Selected papers from the twelfth trienniel conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) held in Canberra in July 2001 -- Cf p. xiii