Falling backwards : Australian historical fiction and the history wars /

Some stories are hard to tell. During a period known as the Australian History Wars, consideration of the national past was vexed, contested territory. There was marked vitriol – to an unprecedented extent – in public debate about the “reality” and interpretation of the events of colonisatio...

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Main Author: Jones, Jo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018
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505 0 0 |g Chapter 1  |t 'Dancing the Old Enlightenment': Gould's Book of Fish, the body and the postmodern sublime  |g p. 50 --  |g Chapter 2  |t Kate Grenville's colonial novels: An ethics of expansion and return  |g p. 80 --  |g I  |t Kate's Story: Wiseman and Thornhill  |g p. 82 --  |g II  |t The history-fiction debate: What is literature for?  |g p. 110 --  |g Chapter 3  |t Ambivalence, absence and loss in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon  |g p. 134 --  |g Chapter 4  |t The heart-land: History, possibility and the Romantic poetic in Kim Scott's Benang  |g p. 160 --  |g Chapter 5  |t Rodney Hall's Captivity Captive and narrating the gothic Beneath modernity  |g p. 195 --  |g I  |t Laplanche's ethical 'alien': Psychoanalytic theory and the materiality of the Australian colonial frontier  |g p. 209 --  |g II  |t Historicisnig Bataille: Politicising thanos  |g p. 227 --  |t Coda: 1988-2011  |g p. 251 --  |g I  |t Refusing to be silent  |g p. 251 --  |g II  |t To the future: Mirrors and mourning  |g p. 257 
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