Carnivalizing Reconciliation : : Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm / / Hanna Teichler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Teichler, Hanna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds of Memory ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Carnivalizing Reconciliation -- Chapter 1 JUSTICE THROUGH STORYTELLING? Australian and Canadian Reconciliation and the Victim Paradigm -- Chapter 2 CARNIVALIZING RECONCILIATION Beyond the Victim Paradigm -- Chapter 3 BEYOND THE PARTISAN DIVIDE Transcultural Recalibrations of National Myths in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Gail Jones’s Sorry -- Ch apter 4 “DOUBLE VISIONS” Intimate Enemies and Magic Figures in Kim Scott’s Benang and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen -- Chapter 5 FROM VICTIMOLOGY TO EMPOWERMENT? Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia -- CONCLUSION Fictions of Reconciliation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX