Dark side of the dream : Australian literature and the postcolonial mind
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Dark side of the dream : Australian literature and the postcolonial mind
(Australian cultural studies)
Allen & Unwin, 1991
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  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Dark Side of the Dream" offers an assessment of Australian literature from a postcolonial perspective. Taking a post-bicentenary look at Australian culture and society through its literature, the authors argue that the shape of Australian society and literature has been profoundly affected by the processes that began when a colonizing society from Britain invaded Aboriginal Australia and dispossessed its people. "Australia" is not simply an autonomous White society; it also includes Aboriginal people and cultures and the problems of their relationship to the cultural practices of the colonizers. Nearly half of the book deals with Aboriginal texts, issues and themes, in recognition that this dimension of Australian literature is usually neglected. It also refers to recent work from Marxist, feminist and multicultural perspectives in order to analyze the "traditional" canon of Australian literature.
Table of Contents
- Australian literature and the problem of history
- the bastard complex
- return of the repressed
- the dark traditions
- Aboriginal voices
- crimes and punishments
- reading the country
- the Australian legend
- multiculturalism and the fragment society
- reading the dream.
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