Carnivalizing reconciliation : contemporary Australian and Canadian literature and film beyond the victim paradigm /
"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, w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2021
New York : Berghahn, 2021 |
| Series: | Worlds of memory ;
v. 8 Worlds of memory ; v. 8 |
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Table of 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