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 ParadigmChapter 2. Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Beyond the Victim ParadigmChapter 3. Beyond the Partisan Divide: Transcultural Recalibrations of National Myths in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Gail Jones’s SorryChapter 4. “Double Visions”: Intimate Enemies and Magic Figures in Kim Scott’s Benang and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur QueenChapter 5. From Victimology to Empowerment? Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann’s AustraliaConclusion: Fictions of ReconciliationBibliography

“Carnivalizing Reconciliation is an ambitious, detailed book with a compelling underlying theoretical premise: namely that reconciliation, thought through the Bakhtinian notion of carnival, is laid bare in all its pitfalls and promise.” • Michael Griffiths, University of Wollongong