alienation and identity in Australasian literature
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2010
Verlag:
Rodopi, Amsterdam
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...
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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 Towards settler auto-ethnography : Nicholas Jose's Black sheep / Marc Delrez -- Australia re-mapped and con-texted in Kim Scott's Benang / Pablo Armellino -- "One more story to tell" : diasporic articulations in Sally Morgan's My place / Elvira Pulitano -- Belonging and unbelonging in text and research : "snow domes" in Australia / Eleonore Wildburger -- Reconciling accounts : an analysis of Stephen Gray's The artist is a thief / Christine Nicholls -- The spectral belongings of Mudrooroo / Lorenzo Perrona -- The unusual life of Tristan Smith and the "pain of unbelonging" / Sue Ryan-Fazilleau -- The bone people : contexts and reception, 1984-2004 / Sarah Shieff -- Integrated, belonging, unbelonging, in Albert Wendt's Sons for the return home / Françoise Kral -- Margaret Mahy's post-national bridge-building : weaving the threads of unbelonging / Anne Magnan-Park.
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