Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians, academics, journalists-which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1: (Un)settlement and Longing to Belong in
Australian Settler Culture; Chapter 2: Between the Self, Place and Nation:
Historians’ Memoirs of Settler Belonging; Chapter 3: Journeys of Unsettled
Desires: Women’s Travel Memoirs of Settler Belonging; Chapter 4: The Poetics of
the Land: Experimental Memoirs of Settler Belonging; Chapter 5: From Landscape
to Country: Contemporary Landscape- and Eco-Memoirs; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Martina Horáková is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Product details

• Authors: Martina Hor?kov?, Martina Horakova, Martina Horáková
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.05.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781839990571
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-057-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Studies in Australian L; Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Australia, Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: from c 2000