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Hidden Histories and Unwelcome Memories in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012

Abstract

The essay considers the ways in which Hamilton refracts questions of ideology, agency and identity through private experience; it presents an analysis of the interactions between history, memory and narrative in the text and its contexts, and will consider the novel as an exemplar of memory work, intersecting with a broader set of issues concerning the performance of cultural memory.