Playing at Crusoe: Gender, Place, and Identity in Girls' Robinsonades

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Place And Identity

Indigenous Novels in Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Hyland-Russell
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Power Of Story ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Place And Identity

Canadian Indigenous novels emerged as a specific genre within the last thirty years, rooted in a deep, thousands-year-old ‘performance art and poetic tradition’ of oratory, oral story, poetry, and drama. In addition to these oral and performance traditions are the ‘unique and varying methods of written communication’ that flourished long before contact with Europeans. The chapter considers Canadian novels by Indigenous writers. It shows that Indigenous fiction is deeply intertwined with history, politics, and a belief in the power of story to name, resist, and heal; that novel-length Aboriginal fiction in Canada built on a growing body of other forms of Indigenous literature; and that many Indigenous novels foreground their relationship with place and identity as key features of the resistance against systemic and institutional racism. It also examines coming-of-age novels of the 1980s and 1990s that are grounded in realism.

Giving Voices to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature

1996 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 635
Author(s):  
Kathleen Braden ◽  
Barbara McKean Parmenter
Keyword(s):  
Palestinian Literature ◽  
Place And Identity

Geographies of memory, place and identity: Intersections in remembering war and conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 447-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Drozdzewski ◽  
Sarah De Nardi ◽  
Emma Waterton
Keyword(s):  
War And Conflict ◽  
Place And Identity

Malouf's invisible city: The intertwining of place and identity in Johnno

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Suzie Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
David Malouf ◽  
River City ◽  
Place And Identity

By the time poet David Malouf wrote Johnno (1976), his first work of prose fiction, he was in his late thirties and living in the Renaissance city of Florence. Both European Florence and antipodean Brisbane mirror and enfold the novel's eponymous hero, Johnno, and his narrator-creator, Dante. The Florentine poet, and by extension his medieval trappings, resonate throughout a tale about growing up in a frontier town far removed from the cosmopolitan centres of the Northern Hemisphere. This Italian connection can be explored further by considering Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1997) alongside Johnno. The depiction of Venice in Calvino's novel can operate as a point of contrast and comparison to the river city of Brisbane, conjured by Malouf's Dante.

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