Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-172-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Worlds of Memory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teichler, Hanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Chapter 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

Über Autor(innen)

Teichler, Hanna
Hanna Teichler is a research associate in the department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University, Frankfurt. With Rebekah Vince, she is co-editor of Brill’s Mobilizing Memories series and their Handbook Series in Memory Studies. She is also a member of the Memory Studies Association Executive Committee and Astrid Erll’s Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform.