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Australian History: When Fiction becomes Reality
Ben-Messahel, Salhia
2025
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2283-6438
Abstract
This article explores the literary strategies that operate in Richard Flanagan, Tim Winton, David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkias’s stories and that reconfigure Australian fiction as a central discursive space. It seeks to analyse the ambivalent discourses that operate when retelling Australia’s settler past and how the act of writing may construct a space for an alter discourse, a space that exceeds the “post” of postcolonialism. The article thus shows that 20th and 21st Australian literature has designed a performative discourse that re-constructs issues of home, belonging and identity through multiple realities and counter spaces of discourse
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Salhia Ben-Messahel, "Australian History: When Fiction becomes Reality" in: "2025 / 30 Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2025, pp. 79-97
Languages
en
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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