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Carnivalizing Reconciliation : Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film Beyond the Victim Paradigm
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of 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 problematic, reproducing simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories.
- Subjects :
- Canadian literature--21st century--History and criticism
Australian literature--21st century--History and criticism
Indigenous peoples in literature
Memory in literature
Victims in literature
Victims in motion pictures
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
Memory in motion pictures
Motion pictures--Canada--History--21st century
Motion pictures--Australia--History--21st century
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9781800731721, 9781805397496, 9781800731738, and 9781805399261
- Volume :
- 00008
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- Carnivalizing Reconciliation : Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film Beyond the Victim Paradigm
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 2759979