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020			_a9789004304086 _q(electronic book)
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024	7		_a10.1163/9789004304086 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)931152927 _z(OCoLC)927963411 _z(OCoLC)929124048
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100	1		_aMolloy, Diane.
245	1	0	_aCultural memory and literature : _bre-imagining Australia's past / _cby Diane Molloy.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill Rodopi, _c[2016]
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCross/cultures ; _vv. 184
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material -- 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: —Carpentaria -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aCultural 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. A brief overview of Aboriginal politics between the 1920s and the 1990s in relation to several novels provides historical and political background to the links between, and problems associated with, cultural memory, testimony, trauma, and Stolen Generations narratives, which are discussed in relation to Sally Morgan’s My Place and Doris Pilkington’s Rabbit-Proof Fence . There follows an analysis of novels that respond to the history of contact between Aboriginal and settler Australians, including Kate Grenville’s historical novels The Secret River , The Lieutenant , and Sarah Thornhill as examples of a traditional approach. David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon charts how language and naming defined our early national narrative that excluded Aboriginal people. Intertextuality is explored via the relation between Thea Astley’s The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow , Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man, and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Kim Scott’s Benang: from the heart and That Deadman Dance and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria reflect a number of Lachmann’s concepts – syncretism, dialogism, polyphony, Menippean satire, and the carnivalesque. Suggested is a new way of reading novels that respond to Australia’s violent past beyond trauma studies and postcolonial theory to re-imagine a different, syncretic past from multiple perspectives.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
648		7	_a1900 - 2099 _2fast
650		0	_aCollective memory and literature _zAustralia.
650		0	_aAboriginal Australians in literature.
650		0	_aAustralian fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAustralian fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aAboriginal Australians in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aAustralian fiction. _2fast
650		7	_aCollective memory and literature. _2fast
651		7	_aAustralia. _2fast
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast
776	0	8	_cOriginal _z9789004304062 _z9004304061 _w(OCoLC)921513338
830		0	_aCross/Cultures _v184.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004292840.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004304086
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