TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pilar Royo-Grasa
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-088X
SN  - 9783631870266
TI  - Trauma, Australia and Gail Jones’s Fiction (1996-2007)
DO  - 10.3726/b19258
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1190587
N2  - Australia’s official Reconciliation project confronted Australians with the continuous violent dispossession suffered by the country’s Indigenous peoples and the pressing need to offer a public apology to them. While trauma became a tool whereby to create paths of empathy and reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, it was also a manipulative strategy to deny the country’s shameful history. This book examines Gail Jones’s literary contribution to such debates. It examines Gail Jones’s questioning of Australia’s victimology narratives, and offers an insightful discussion of the transmedia, transnational and multidirectional approach to trauma in the reconciliation-related novels she published during John Howard’s vexed Liberal Government (1996-2007).
LA  - English
ER  -