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Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture: Memory and Narrative

Autor Kelly Jean Butler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2017
This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically to stories of its marginalized citizens.
Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants, and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public, they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens.
When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present. This is a vital addition to Transaction's critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138517981
ISBN-10: 1138517984
Pagini: 301
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Memory and Narrative

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Public Histories, Personal Stories
1.Witnessing the Stolen Generations
2."This Is How I'm Sorry": Creative Witnessing in Contemporary Australian Historical Fictions
3.Frontiers of Witnessing: History after Testimony
4.Witnessing UnAustralia: Asylum-Seeker Advocacy and the National Good
5."Do You Want the Truth or What I Said?": False Witnessing and the Culture of Denial
6.Witnessing (Dis)possession: Victims, Battlers, and "Ordinary" Australians
Conclusion: Witnessing Australian Stories
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television