Otherness in the Novels of Patrick White Hardback
by Alma Budurlean
Part of the Anglo-Amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American Studies series
Hardback
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The central argument of the thesis, the representation and reception of otherness, is followed throughout White’s novels with the support of a complex critical instrumentarium made up of postcolonial theory, reader response theory, cultural-critical frameworks, alterity theory, and narratology.
Otherness in its manifold representations is a main component of Patrick White’s fiction.
It functions on several levels and this requires a deeper entanglement on the part of the reader.
The different levels previously referred to are embodied in the various Others who people White’s novels: ethnic Others as members of the Australian multicultural society and the Aborigines as colonial Others, as well as gender Others, who also play an important role in White’s fictional world.
Reading Patrick White is an exercise in tolerance, endurance and acceptance of alternatives.
But the efforts of the reader do not remain unrewarded.
In his endeavour to change what it meant to imagine Australia, the writer broke down the barriers of what it meant to imagine otherness.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:178 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:27/07/2009
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- ISBN:9783631589090
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:178 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:27/07/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9783631589090
