"The Unbearable (Im)Possibility of Belonging: Andrew McGahans The White Earth"

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. "The Unbearable (Im)Possibility of Belonging: Andrew McGahans The White Earth". In Nathanael O'Reilly. Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature. Amherst, NY (USA): Cambria Press, 2010, p. 109-128. ISBN 978-1-60497-711-0.

Basic information

Original name

"The Unbearable (Im)Possibility of Belonging: Andrew McGahans The White Earth"

Authors

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Amherst, NY (USA), Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature, p. 109-128, 20 pp. 2010

Publisher

Cambria Press

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/10:00058889

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-1-60497-711-0

Keywords in English

postcolonial Australian literature; Andrew Macgahan; the white earth belonging

Tags

RIV-OK, rivok

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Abstract

V originále

This book presents thirteen essays that address the numerous ways in which Australian literature is postcolonial and can be read using postcolonial reading strategies. The collection addresses a wide variety of Australian texts produced from the colonial period to the present, including works by Henry Lawson, Miles Franklin, Patrick White, Xavier Herbert, David Malouf, Peter Carey, Rodney Hall, Andrew McGahan, Elizabeth Jolley, Judith Wright, Kate Grenville, Janette Turner Hospital, Melissa Lucashenko, Kim Scott, and Alexis Wright. The chapters focus on works by Indigenous authors and writers of European descent, and examine specifically postcolonial issues, including hybridity, first contact, resistance, appropriation, race relations, language usage, indigeneity, immigration/invasion, land rights and ownership, national identity, marginalization, mapping, naming, mimicry, the role of historical narratives, settler guilt and denial, and anxieties regarding belonging. The essays emphasize the postcolonial nature of Australian literature and utilize postcolonial theory to analyze Australian texts.