Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Hanna Teichler is a research associate in the department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University, Frankfurt. With Rebekah Vince, she is co-editor of Brill’s Mobilizing Memories series and their Handbook Series in Memory Studies. She is also a member of the Memory Studies Association Executive Committee and Astrid Erll’s Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform.

Introduction: Carnivalizing Reconciliation




Chapter 1. Justice through Storytelling? Australian and Canadian Reconciliation and the Victim Paradigm

Chapter 2. Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Beyond the Victim Paradigm

Chapter 3. Beyond the Partisan Divide: Transcultural Recalibrations of National Myths in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Gail Jones’s Sorry

Chapter 4. “Double Visions”: Intimate Enemies and Magic Figures in Kim Scott’s Benang and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen

Chapter 5. From Victimology to Empowerment? Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia



Conclusion: Fictions of Reconciliation



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