Witnessing the past : history and post-colonialism in Australian historical novels / Sigrun Meinig
- Bib ID:
- 3310898
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- Book
- Author:
- Meinig, Sigrun
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- Description:
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- Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, c2004
- 394 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 3823361163
- Series:
- Mannheimer Beiträge zur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft ; Bd. 62.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 1. Fictions of Australian History 9
- 1.1. Australian History: Icons and Types 13
- 1.2. Australia and Post-Colonial Studies 19
- 1.3. Post-Colonial History and Historical
- Understanding 26
- 1.4. Representing History in Historical Novels 39
- 1.4.1. The Genre: Historical Novels 40
- 1.4.2. A Descriptive Framework for the Narrato-
- logical Characterisation of Historical Novels 45
- 1.5. Two Groups of Australian Historical Novels
- in the Light of Materiality and Myth 51
- Analysing Materiality: Meaning and Fixity 57
- 2. History in Principles: Henry Handel Richardson's
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930) 69
- 2.1. The Colony and Its Past in Detail 72
- 2.2. Binary Oppositions and Principles:
- Flight from History 81
- 2.3. Metonymy: Hide and Seek 97
- 3. History as Stories and Thistles: Peter Carey's
- Jack Maggs (1997) and Oscar and Lucinda (1988) 109
- 3.1. The Bookkeeping of History: Jack Maggs 112
- 3.1.1. The History of a Story: Jack Maggs
- and Intertextuality 113
- 3.1.2. Tokens and Exchanges, Possessions
- and Secrets 123
- 3.1.3. Intertextual Materiality: History
- and Origins 133
- 3.2. The Gamble of History: Oscar and Lucinda 143
- 3.2.1. A History of Individuals and Instances 144
- 3.2.2. 'The White Man's Dreaming':
- Materiality, Tokens, and Symbols 156
- 3.2.3. The Cultural Material of History:
- Truth, Order, and the Gamble of Metaphors 167
- 3.3. Thistles 186
- Analysing Myth: Narrative and Time 189
- 4. Prophetic History: Patrick White's The Tree of Man (1955)
- and A Fringe of Leaves (1976) 205
- 4.1. History in Constants: The Tree of Man 209
- 4.1.1. 'Filling the Void': The Mythical Method
- and Australian History 210
- 4.1.2. Generating History 219
- 4.1.3. Illuminating History 230
- 4.2. History in Captivity: A Fringe of Leaves 237
- 4.2.1. The Roles of a Colonial Myth 238
- 4.2.2. Caught in a Fringe 254
- 4.2.3. Suffering Cannibalism 262
- 4.3. The Passivity of Prophesy 276
- 5. History as Memory, Myth, and Mystery:
- Rodney Halls's Yandilli Trilogy (1994) 279
- 5.1. Framing History: Patterns and Psyche 282
- 5.2. Visions: The Second Bridegroom 293
- 5.2.1. A Myopic Bridegroom 293
- 5.2.2. Fences 302
- 5.2.3. Forgery 309
- 5.3. Sacrifices: Captivity Captive 319
- 5.3.1. Mystery 319
- 5.3.2. Incest 326
- 5.3.3. The Spiralling of Trauma 342
- 6. The Literary Art of Witnessing the Australian Past:
- The Ethical and Political Potential of Historical Novels 349
- 6.1. Synopsis: Representing Australian History 350
- 6.1.1. The Light of Materiality and Myth 350
- 6.1.2. Re-minding and Re-membering:
- Two Groups of Australian Historical Novels 355
- 6.1.3. Memory, The Future of History, and
- the Rhetoric of Past and Present 360
- 6.2. Understanding History: Fictional Witnessing
- of the Past and Its Moral Resonances 365
- References 379.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-394)
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