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Title The pain of unbelonging : alienation and identity in Australasian literature / edited by Sheila Collingwood-Whittick ; preface by Germaine Greer.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 210 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; 91
Cross/cultures ; 91. 0924-1426
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Towards settler auto-ethnography : Nicholas Jose's Black sheep / Marc Delrez -- Australia re-mapped and con-texted in Kim Scott's Benang / Pablo Armellino -- "One more story to tell" : diasporic articulations in Sally Morgan's My place / Elvira Pulitano -- Belonging and unbelonging in text and research : "snow domes" in Australia / Eleonore Wildburger -- Reconciling accounts : an analysis of Stephen Gray's The artist is a thief / Christine Nicholls -- The spectral belongings of Mudrooroo / Lorenzo Perrona -- The unusual life of Tristan Smith and the "pain of unbelonging" / Sue Ryan-Fazilleau -- The bone people : contexts and reception, 1984-2004 / Sarah Shieff -- Integrated, belonging, unbelonging, in Albert Wendt's Sons for the return home / Françoise Kral -- Margaret Mahy's post-national bridge-building : weaving the threads of unbelonging / Anne Magnan-Park.
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Summary 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 disorientati.
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Subject Australasian literature -- History and criticism.
Australasian literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Philosophy) in literature.
Alienation (Philosophy) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila.
Other Form: Print version: Pain of unbelonging. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 9789042021877 904202187X (OCoLC)123434752
ISBN 9781429480833 (electronic book)
1429480831 (electronic book)
904202187X
9789042021877
9789401204279
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904202187X (hardbound)
9789042021877 (hardbound)