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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | Irish roots, Australian rhizomes: ancestry and diasporic cultural identity in the works of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch |
| Author: | Habel, C. |
| Citation: | Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 2008; 7:37-49 |
| Publisher: | Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| ISSN: | 1837-1094 |
| Department: | Centre for Learning and Professional Development |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Chad Habel |
| Abstract: | The contrasting ideas of ancestry and diasporic cultural identity portrayed in the works of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch are analysed. The concept of an arborescent Irish ancestry depending on a linear and direct connection portrayed in Thomas Keneally's novels such as 'Bring Larks and Heroes' is compared to Christopher Koch's rhizomatic Irish ancestry based on lateral, networked relationships expressed in his novels 'Highways to a War' (1995) and 'Out of Ireland' (1999). |
| Subject: | Psychoanalysis in literature; Irish literature -- History and criticism; Ireland -- Relations -- Australia; Australia -- Relations -- Ireland |
| Rights: | Copyright © 2008 RMIT Publishing |
| Published version: | http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=305848258036250;res=IELHSS |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Centre for Learning and Professional Development publications Education publications |
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