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Title: Performing Australia's black and white history: acts of danger in four Australian plays of the early 21 century
Related: Australasian Digital Theses Program
Date: 2006
Author/Creator: Lyssa, Alison
Description: Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in English in the Division of Humanities, Dept. of English, 2006.
Description: Thesis (MA)--Macquarie University (Division of Humanities, Department of English), 2006.
Description: Bibliography: p. 199-210.
Description: Introduction -- Defiance and servility in Andrew Bovell's Holy day -- Writing a reconciled nation: Katherine Thomson's Wonderlands -- Transformation of trauma: Tammy Anderson's I don't wanna play house -- The rage inside the pain: Richard J. Frankland's Conversations with the dead -- Conclusion: towards an understanding of witness to the trauma of invasion.
Description: In an Australia shaped by neo-conservative government and by searing contention, national and global, over what the past is, how it should be allowed to affect the present and who are authentic bearers of witness, this thesis compares testimony to Australia's black/white relations in two plays by white writers, Andrew Bovell's 'Holy day' (2001) and Katherne Thomson's 'Wonderlands' (2003), and two black writers, Tammy Anderson's 'I don't wanna play house' (2001) and Richard J. Frankland's 'Conversations witht the dead' (2002).
Description: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description: 210 p. ill. 30 cm
Subject Keyword: Bovell. Andrew -- Criticism and interpretation
Subject Keyword: Thomson, Katherine -- Criticism and interpretation
Subject Keyword: Anderson, Tammy -- Criticism and interpretation
Subject Keyword: Frankland, Richard J -- Criticism and interpretation
Subject Keyword: Australian drama -- History and criticism
Subject Keyword: Australian drama -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism
Subject Keyword: Aboriginal Australians
Subject Keyword: Australian race relations
Subject Keyword: Native title
Subject Keyword: Postcolonial drama
Resource Type: Thesis masters research
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of English

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/714
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright disclaimer: http://www.copyright.mq.edu.au
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