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  1. Carnivalizing reconciliation
    contemporary Australian and Canadian literature and film beyond the victim paradigm
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Berghahn, New York

    Introduction: Carnivalizing reconciliation -- Justice through storytelling? Australian and Canadian reconciliation and the victim paradigm -- Beyond the partisan divide: transcultural recalibrations of national myths in Joseph Boyden's Three day road... more

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
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    Introduction: Carnivalizing reconciliation -- Justice through storytelling? Australian and Canadian reconciliation and the victim paradigm -- Beyond the partisan divide: transcultural recalibrations of national myths in Joseph Boyden's Three day road and Gail Jones'e Sorry -- "Double visions": intimate enemies and magic figures in Kim Scott's Benang and Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen -- From victimology to empowerment? Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann's Australia -- Conclusion: Fictions of reconciliation "Criminal justice inquiries may be the most historically dramatic means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of "memory work" that most individuals encounter historical reconciliation in practice. This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is "carnivalesque," temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories"--

     

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  2. Carnivalizing reconciliation
    contemporary Australian and Canadian literature and film beyond the victim paradigm
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Berghahn Books, New York

    Introduction: Carnivalizing reconciliation -- Justice through storytelling? Australian and Canadian reconciliation and the victim paradigm -- Beyond the partisan divide: transcultural recalibrations of national myths in Joseph Boyden's Three day road... more

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    03.k.6252
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    Introduction: Carnivalizing reconciliation -- Justice through storytelling? Australian and Canadian reconciliation and the victim paradigm -- Beyond the partisan divide: transcultural recalibrations of national myths in Joseph Boyden's Three day road and Gail Jones'e Sorry -- "Double visions": intimate enemies and magic figures in Kim Scott's Benang and Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen -- From victimology to empowerment? Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann's Australia -- Conclusion: Fictions of reconciliation. "Criminal justice inquiries may be the most historically dramatic means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of "memory work" that most individuals encounter historical reconciliation in practice. This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is "carnivalesque," temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781800731721
    Series: Worlds of memory ; volume 8
    Subjects: Indigenous peoples in motion pictures; Victims in motion pictures; Memory in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Australian literature; Canadian literature; Indigenous peoples in literature; Victims in literature; Memory in literature
    Scope: 266 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index