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Young and Free : [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783483082
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Young and FreeDDC classification:
  • 305.230994
LOC classification:
  • BF721 -- .F377 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Child -- Chapter One: Visions of Autonomy: Figures of the Child as Model of the Human -- Chapter Two: Phantasms of Subjection and the Oblivion of the Other -- Chapter Three: The Uncanny Child as Postcolonial Unconscious and Conscience -- Part II: Memory -- Chapter Four: Children Lost and Stolen -- Chapter Five: The Child as Witness -- Chapter Six: Nostalgia, Colonialism and Aboriginal Community -- Part III: History -- Chapter Seven: 'Stronger Futures?' The Peculiar Temporalities of [Post]colonial Community -- Chapter Eight: The Emergent Community -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Engaging philosophy with history, literature, film and testimony, this book examines the critical relationship between white Australian identity and the cultural priority of childhood in Australia.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Child -- Chapter One: Visions of Autonomy: Figures of the Child as Model of the Human -- Chapter Two: Phantasms of Subjection and the Oblivion of the Other -- Chapter Three: The Uncanny Child as Postcolonial Unconscious and Conscience -- Part II: Memory -- Chapter Four: Children Lost and Stolen -- Chapter Five: The Child as Witness -- Chapter Six: Nostalgia, Colonialism and Aboriginal Community -- Part III: History -- Chapter Seven: 'Stronger Futures?' The Peculiar Temporalities of [Post]colonial Community -- Chapter Eight: The Emergent Community -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Engaging philosophy with history, literature, film and testimony, this book examines the critical relationship between white Australian identity and the cultural priority of childhood in Australia.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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