The pain of unbelonging : alienation and identity in Australasian literature
Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientati
Cross/cultures, 91
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xliii, 210 pages)
9781429480833, 9789042021877, 9789401204279, 1429480831, 904202187X, 9401204276
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Towards settler auto-ethnography : Nicholas Jose's Black sheep / Marc Delrez
Australia re-mapped and con-texted in Kim Scott's Benang / Pablo Armellino
"One more story to tell" : diasporic articulations in Sally Morgan's My place / Elvira Pulitano
Belonging and unbelonging in text and research : "snow domes" in Australia / Eleonore Wildburger
Reconciling accounts : an analysis of Stephen Gray's The artist is a thief / Christine Nicholls
The spectral belongings of Mudrooroo / Lorenzo Perrona
The unusual life of Tristan Smith and the "pain of unbelonging" / Sue Ryan-Fazilleau
The bone people : contexts and reception, 1984-2004 / Sarah Shieff
Integrated, belonging, unbelonging, in Albert Wendt's Sons for the return home / Françoise Kral
Margaret Mahy's post-national bridge-building : weaving the threads of unbelonging / Anne Magnan-Park
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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