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Critical Affect

The Politics of Method

By: Barnwell Ashley Barnwell

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Critical Affect

The Politics of Method

By: Barnwell Ashley Barnwell

Critical Affect explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology. Through a series of vivid close readings, Ashley Barnwell shows how suspicion and methods of decoding remain vital to both civic and academic spaces, where concerns about precarity, transparency, and security are commonplace and the question of how we verify the truth is one of the most polarising of our age. Weaving together both the critical and affective dimensions of 'paranoid reading', Critical Affect opens crucial questions about the ethics of practicing theory and offers a new route into the critical study of affect.a

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186

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Edinburgh University Press

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ISBN 10

1474451349

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9781474451345

Reckoning with the Past

Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature

By: Ashley Barnwell,Joseph Cummins

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Reckoning with the Past

Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature

By: Ashley Barnwell,Joseph Cummins

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors’ often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. An important contribution to the emerging global conversation about multidirectional memory and the need to attend to the effects of colonisation, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary field of scholarly readers.

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