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Reckoning with the past : family historiographies in postcolonial Australian literature / Ashley Barnwell and Joseph Cummins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnwell, Ashley, author.
- Cummins, Joseph, author.
- Series:
- Memory studies: global constellations
- Memory studies : global constellations ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Australia--History.
- Families.
- History.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 131 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Contents:
- Dredging up family secrets : Kate Grenville's The secret river and Richard Flanagan's Death of a river guide
- Confronting the "double fold of silence" : Kim Scott and Hazel Brown's Kayang & me and Sally Morgan's My place
- Belonging across generations : Brian Castro's Birds of passage and Shanghai nights, and Alex Miller's The ancestor game
- Returning to homelands : Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe and Christopher Koch's The many-coloured land : a return to Ireland
- Listening to the ghosts of the past : Andrew McGahan's The white earth
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138088955
- 1138088951
- OCLC:
- 1061863495
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