EUR  â¬82.80EUR  â¬69.00 excl. VAT
The Pain of Unbelonging
Alienation and Identity in Australasian Literature
Series: - Cross/Cultures, Volume: 91
Volume Editor:
Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientation and ontological destabilization can be found not only in the state of anomie and self-destructive patterns of behaviour that now characterize the lives of indigenous Australian and Maori peoples, but also in the perpetually faltering identity-discourse and cultural rootlessness of the present descendants of the countriesâ Anglo-Celtic settlers.
It is with the literary expression of this persistent condition of alienation that the essays gathered in the present volume are concerned. Covering a heterogeneous selection of contemporary Australasian literature, what these critical studies convincingly demonstrate is that, more than two hundred years after the process of colonisation was set in motion, the experience that Germaine Greer has dubbed 'the pain of unbelonging' continues unabated, constituting a dominant thematic concern in the writing produced today by Australian and New Zealand authors.
It is with the literary expression of this persistent condition of alienation that the essays gathered in the present volume are concerned. Covering a heterogeneous selection of contemporary Australasian literature, what these critical studies convincingly demonstrate is that, more than two hundred years after the process of colonisation was set in motion, the experience that Germaine Greer has dubbed 'the pain of unbelonging' continues unabated, constituting a dominant thematic concern in the writing produced today by Australian and New Zealand authors.
SHEILA COLLINGWOODâWHITTICK is a senior lecturer in postcolonial studies in the English Department of the University of Grenoble III.
CONTRIBUTORS: Pablo Armellino, Sheila CollingwoodâWhittick, Marc Delrez, Françoise Kral, Sue RyanâFazilleau, Germaine Greer, Anne MagnanâPark, Christine Nicholls, Lorenzo Perrona, Elvira Pulitano, Sarah Shieff and Eleonore Wildburger.
CONTRIBUTORS: Pablo Armellino, Sheila CollingwoodâWhittick, Marc Delrez, Françoise Kral, Sue RyanâFazilleau, Germaine Greer, Anne MagnanâPark, Christine Nicholls, Lorenzo Perrona, Elvira Pulitano, Sarah Shieff and Eleonore Wildburger.
Preface: Germaine GREER
Introduction
Marc DELREZ: Towards Settler Auto-Ethnography: Nicholas Joseâs Black Sheep
Pablo ARMELLINO: Australia Re-Mapped and Con-Texted in Kim Scottâs Benang
Elvira PULITANO: âOne more story to tellâ: Diasporic Articulations in Sally Morganâs My Place
Eleonore WILDBURGER: Belonging and Unbelonging in Text and Research: âSnow Domesâ in Australia
Christine NICHOLLS: Reconciling Accounts: An Analysis of Stephen Grayâs The Artist is a Thief
Lorenzo PERRONA: The Spectral Belongings of Mudrooroo
Sue RYANâFAZILLEAU: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith and the âPain of Unbelongingâ
Sarah SHIEFF: the bone people Contexts and Reception, 1984â2004
Françoise KRAL: Integrating, Belonging, Unbelonging in Albert Wendtâs Sons for the Return Home
Anne MAGNANâPARK: Margaret Mahyâs Post-National Bridge-Building: Weaving the Threads of Unbelonging
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Marc DELREZ: Towards Settler Auto-Ethnography: Nicholas Joseâs Black Sheep
Pablo ARMELLINO: Australia Re-Mapped and Con-Texted in Kim Scottâs Benang
Elvira PULITANO: âOne more story to tellâ: Diasporic Articulations in Sally Morganâs My Place
Eleonore WILDBURGER: Belonging and Unbelonging in Text and Research: âSnow Domesâ in Australia
Christine NICHOLLS: Reconciling Accounts: An Analysis of Stephen Grayâs The Artist is a Thief
Lorenzo PERRONA: The Spectral Belongings of Mudrooroo
Sue RYANâFAZILLEAU: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith and the âPain of Unbelongingâ
Sarah SHIEFF: the bone people Contexts and Reception, 1984â2004
Françoise KRAL: Integrating, Belonging, Unbelonging in Albert Wendtâs Sons for the Return Home
Anne MAGNANâPARK: Margaret Mahyâs Post-National Bridge-Building: Weaving the Threads of Unbelonging
Notes on Contributors