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Trauma, Australia and Gail Jones's Fiction (1996-2007)

Trauma, Australia and Gail Jones's Fiction (1996-2007)

Royo-Grasa, Pilar
Bode, Christoph

Hardcover

Series: Muse: Munich Studies in English, Book 48

African HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Asian History

ISBN10: 3631864574
ISBN13: 9783631864579
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Mar 29 2022
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Australia's official Reconciliation project confronted Australians with the continuous violent dispossession suffered by the country's Indigenous peoples and the pressing need to offer a public apology to them. While trauma became a tool whereby to create paths of empathy and reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, it was also a manipulative strategy to deny the country's shameful history. This book examines Gail Jones's literary contribution to such debates. It examines Gail Jones's questioning of Australia's victimology narratives, and offers an insightful discussion of the transmedia, transnational and multidirectional approach to trauma in the reconciliation-related novels she published during John Howard's vexed Liberal Government (1996-2007).

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