Faulkner, Joanne.

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.

9781783483082


Postcolonialism - Australia - History.


Electronic books.

BF721 -- .F377 2016eb

305.230994