The pain of unbelonging : alienation and identity in Australasian literature

The pain of unbelonging : alienation and identity in Australasian literature / edited by Sheila Collingwood-Whittick ; preface by Germaine Greer.

Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of aliena...

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Other Authors: Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 91.
Subjects:
Australasian literature > History and criticism.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Philosophy) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Alienation (Philosophy) in literature
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Australasian literature
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientati.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xliii, 210 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781429480833
1429480831
904202187X
9789042021877
9789401204279
9401204276
ISSN:0924-1426 ;
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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