Carnivalizing reconciliation : contemporary Australian and Canadian literature and film beyond the victim paradigm / Hanna Teichler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teichler, Hanna, author.

Series:

Worlds of memory ; v. 8.

Worlds of memory ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.

Victims--In motion pictures.

Victims.

Memory in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Australia--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Canada--History--21st century.

Australian literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

Canadian literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Indigenous peoples in literature.

Victims in literature.

Memory in literature.

History.

Australia.

Canada.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2021.

Summary:

"Criminal justice inquiries may be the most historically dramatic means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of "memory work" that most individuals encounter historical reconciliation in practice. This book analyzes, within the realms of national 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 "carnivalesque," temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Carnivalizing reconciliation

Justice through storytelling? Australian and Canadian reconciliation and the victim paradigm

Beyond the partisan divide: transcultural recalibrations of national myths in Joseph Boyden's Three day road and Gail Jones'e Sorry

"Double visions": intimate enemies and magic figures in Kim Scott's Benang and Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen

From victimology to empowerment? Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann's Australia

Conclusion: Fictions of reconciliation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Teichler, Hanna. Carnivalizing reconciliation

ISBN:

9781800731721

1800731728

OCLC:

1232226783