Cultural memory and literature : : re-imagining Australia's past / / by Diane Molloy.
Cultural 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 s...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures, Volume 184 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
Volume 184. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary 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.