Chapter 5 FROM VICTIMOLOGY TO EMPOWERMENT? Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vi
4. INTRODUCTION Carnivalizing Reconciliation 1
5. Chapter 1 JUSTICE THROUGH STORYTELLING? Australian and Canadian Reconciliation and the Victim Paradigm 22
6. Chapter 2 CARNIVALIZING RECONCILIATION Beyond the Victim Paradigm 59
7. Chapter 3 BEYOND THE PARTISAN DIVIDE Transcultural Recalibrations of National Myths in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Gail Jones’s Sorry 88
8. Ch apter 4 “DOUBLE VISIONS” Intimate Enemies and Magic Figures in Kim Scott’s Benang and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen 136
9. Chapter 5 FROM VICTIMOLOGY TO EMPOWERMENT? Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia 185
10. CONCLUSION Fictions of Reconciliation 227
11. BIBLIOGRAPHY 235
12. INDEX 262