Unsettling Oceania

Salhia GARBIN,Christine LORRE-JOHNSTON
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Date de publication
1er avril 2019
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Unsettling Oceania takes the pulse of the contemporary literature of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, 250 years after Captain Cook's first voyage led to encounter and Western colonisation. The eleven articles gathered here reflect the ideological current of "decolonisation" in the white settler societies considered, and the will to deconstruct our understanding of modernity, in particular by foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and epistemologies. The essays adopt a dual ethical and aesthetic dimension to examine a literature that unsettles and decentres the established Western perspective on Oceania. The issue includes discussions of the evolution of the forms of belonging to the nation, the redefinition of Indigeneity, the impact of the Asia-Pacific context, t ... Lire la suite
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Date de première publication du titre 2019
ISBN 03956989
EAN-13 03956989
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Nombre de pages de contenu principal 310
Format 16 x 24 x 0 cm
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"Disturbed Australian Spaces

  • Salhia Ben-Messahel
    Introduction (for Sue Ryan-Fazilleau) ............................................... 5
  • Nicholas Birns
    The New Historical Novel: Putting Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia into Perspective..................................... 7
  • John Clement Ball
    "The Shimmering Edge": Surfing, Risk, and Climate Change in Tim Winton's Breath...................................... 19
  • Paul Giffard-foret
    Settling Scores: Albert Namatjira's Legacy ......................................................... 31
  • Marie herBillon
    Absent Others: Asian-Australian Discontinuities in Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog .............. 43
  • Maggie Wander
    'It's Ok, We’re Safe Here’: The Karrabing Film Collective and Colonial Histories in Australia ... 53
  • Laura A. White
    Haunted Histories, Animate Futures: Recovering Noongar Knowledge through Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance ..............................63

Unsettling Oceania, 250 Years Later

  • Christine Lorre-Johnston
    Introduction....................................................................................................... 75
  • Kara Hisatake
    Revising the Settler Colonial Story in Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow..................................................................... 83
  • Jessica Hurley
    The Nuclear Uncanny in Oceania....................................................................................... 95
  • Valérie Baisnée
    "I’m Niu Voices": Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Poetic Re-Imagining of Pacific Literature ................ 107
  • Marlo Starr
    Paradise and Apocalypse: Critiques of Nuclear Imperialism in Kathy Jetn¯ il-Kijiner’s Iep Ja¯ltok....119
  • Otto HeiM
    How (not) to Globalize Oceania: Ecology and Politics in Contemporary Pacific Island Performance Arts .....................................................131

Reviews

  • Reviewed by Claire Gallien
    Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World. Edited by Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard and Benjamin Mountford...............................................................................................................147
  • Reviewed by Helga RaMsey-Kurz
    Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing. Textet: Studies in Comparative Literature 83. By Jopi Nyman........................................................................................................149
  • Reviewed by Corinne BiGot
    Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne. Edited by Benjamin Authers, Maïté Snauwaert and Daniel Laforest ............................151
  • Reviewed by Fiona Mccann
    "No Other World": Essays on the Life-Work of Don Maclennan. Edited by Dan Wylie and Craig MacKenzie .... 153
  • Reviewed by Delphine Munos
    The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh. By Sneharika Roy ..............155

Contributors .....................................................................................................157"

Unsettling Oceania takes the pulse of the contemporary literature of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, 250 years after Captain Cook's first voyage led to encounter and Western colonisation. The eleven articles gathered here reflect the ideological current of "decolonisation" in the white settler societies considered, and the will to deconstruct our understanding of modernity, in particular by foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and epistemologies. The essays adopt a dual ethical and aesthetic dimension to examine a literature that unsettles and decentres the established Western perspective on Oceania. The issue includes discussions of the evolution of the forms of belonging to the nation, the redefinition of Indigeneity, the impact of the Asia-Pacific context, the concern for the environment in times of climate change, and political and military decolonisation.

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