Assuming the search for truth and the rereading of the past as the very core and fundamental premise on which any project of reconciliation has to be structured, in this essay I explored the most significant steps which have been recently taken in Australia with the aim of fostering such a process. The analysis will be conducted through an overview of major institutional undertakings in that respect and through a consideration of the central role of narratives as powerful instruments of investigation endowed with the strength of imagining and shaping a different future. The re-telling of the past as agent of transformation for the present is one of the most interesting and significant clues for the reading of a literary masterpiece such as Carpentaria, published by the Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright in 2006, which is the subject of scrutiny in the last part of this essay.
Telling the 'Truth' about Australia's Past: Reconciliation as Recognition in Society and Literaure
DOLCE, Maria Renata
2009-01-01
Abstract
Assuming the search for truth and the rereading of the past as the very core and fundamental premise on which any project of reconciliation has to be structured, in this essay I explored the most significant steps which have been recently taken in Australia with the aim of fostering such a process. The analysis will be conducted through an overview of major institutional undertakings in that respect and through a consideration of the central role of narratives as powerful instruments of investigation endowed with the strength of imagining and shaping a different future. The re-telling of the past as agent of transformation for the present is one of the most interesting and significant clues for the reading of a literary masterpiece such as Carpentaria, published by the Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright in 2006, which is the subject of scrutiny in the last part of this essay.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
