The Salesman, The Book Thief and the Book Sellersâ Son: Horrific Voices in Australian Holocaust Literature

L-J Maher

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The Salesman, The Book Thief and the Book Sellersâ Son: Horrific Voices in Australian Holocaust Literature

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880535_008

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The last thirty years have seen an increase in the number of fictional stories by Australian authors that address the Holocaust. Positing 1967 as the source year, (where the Australian Constitution Act 1901 (UK) was amended via popular referendum to include Indigenous Australians in the census count), this development mirrors the temporality, historical concerns and thematic approaches of West German vergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung since the conclusion of the Holocaust in 1945. This chapter proposes that Australian authors have used the Holocaust as a metaphor for genocide in order to begin a narrative process of Reconciliation out of a fear of perpetuating non-Indigenous privilege by usurping Indigenous voices.

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Fear within Melting Boundaries

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Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2011

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