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Carnivalizing Reconciliation
Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm
Hanna Teichler
274 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-172-1 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (October 2021)
ISBN 978-1-80539-749-6 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Not Yet Published (January 2025)
eISBN 978-1-80539-926-1 eBook
Shortlisted for the 2023 MSA First Book Award
Reviews
“Carnivalizing Reconciliation is an ambitious, detailed book with a compelling underlying theoretical premise: namely that reconciliation, thought through the Bakhtinian notion of carnival, is laid bare in all its pitfalls and promise.” • Michael Griffiths, University of Wollongong
Description
Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is problematic, reproducing simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories.
Hanna Teichler is a research associate in the department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University, Frankfurt. With Rebekah Vince, she is co-editor of Brill’s Mobilizing Memories series and their Handbook Series in Memory Studies. She is also a member of the Memory Studies Association Executive Committee and Astrid Erll’s Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform.
Subject: Memory StudiesLiterary StudiesFilm and Television Studies
Area: North AmericaAsia-Pacific
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