Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature

by Sabina Sestigiani

The book investigates the relation between language, violence, and colonialism through comparing and contrasting selected texts in the Italian and Australian tradition (Dino Buzzati, Ennio Flaiano, Guido Ceronetti, Patrick White, David Malouf, Randolph Stow, and Barbara Baynton) and submitting them to a close analysis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433123983
• ISBN13: 9781433123986
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"