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Witnessing Australian Stories - History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture (Paperback)
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Witnessing Australian Stories - History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture (Paperback)
Series: Memory and Narrative
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This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about
suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of
public media, including literature, history, films, and television.
Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent
Australians politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to
come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically
to stories of its marginalized citizens. Drawing upon international
scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and
witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary
Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated
Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the
late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to
the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants,
and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public,
they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but
also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens. When former Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's
indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of
collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences
of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became
crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past
injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia
in the present. This is a vital addition to Transaction's
critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Memory and Narrative |
Release date: |
September 2017 |
First published: |
2013 |
Authors: |
Kelly Jean Butler
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
301 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-51798-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-51798-4 |
Barcode: |
9781138517981 |
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