Reckoning with the Past
Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23547423 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashley Barnwell, Joseph Cummins |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Reckoning with the Past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315109534 |
| OpenAlex | W4231277449 |
| Open Library | OL40082021M |
| ISBN | 9781315109534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors’ often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. An important contribution to the emerging global conversation about multidirectional memory and the need to attend to the effects of colonisation, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary field of scholarly readers.
Geography · Australian History and Society · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Anthropology · Australia · Australian Autobiographical fiction · Australian fiction · Australian literature · Cultural · Cultural Policy · Families · Familles · Family · Family in literature · History and criticism · Political science · Popular Culture · Public policy · Roman australien · Social life and customs · Social Science · Sociology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |