Young and Free : [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
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.