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When Novels Perform History: Dramatizing the Past in Australian and Canadian Literature

When Novels Perform History: Dramatizing the Past in Australian and Canadian Literature

Waese, Rebecca
Emden, Christian
Midgley, David

Paperback

Series: Cultural History and Literary Imagination, Book 28

Australia & OceaniaLiterary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 190616584X
ISBN13: 9781906165840
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Oct 30 2017
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How do you bring history alive? This book explores the use of dramatic modes - such as melodrama, metatheatre, and immersion - to bring immediacy and a sense of living presence to works of literature rooted in history. Focusing on Australian and Canadian literature from the late 1980s to the present, the book features original research on novels by award-winning writers such as David Musgrave, Richard Flanagan, Daphne Marlatt, Peter Carey, Tomson Highway, Thomas Keneally, and Guy Vanderhaeghe. The analysis addresses how these writers use strategies from drama and theatre to engage with colonial and postcolonial histories in their novels and create resonant connections with readers. Some of the novels encourage readers to imagine themselves in historical roles through intimate dramatizations inside characters' minds and bodies. Others use exaggerated theatrical frames to place readers at a critical distance from representations of history using Brechtian techniques of alienation. This book explores the use of dramatic modes to enliven and reimagine settler-invader history and bring colonial and postcolonial histories closer to the present.

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