Seite - 232 - in Über Bücher reden - Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften
Bild der Seite - 232 -
Text der Seite - 232 -
© 2021 V&R unipress, Brill Deutschland GmbH
ISBN Print: 9783847113232 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737013239
tenant,andSarahThornhill;KimScott’sThatDeadmanDanceandTaboo,Gail
Jones’Sorry,andAlexMiller’sJourneytotheStoneCountryandTheLandscapeof
Farewell.Thesenovels tell stories thatareexplicitlyconcernedwithcolonialand
postcolonial violence, and employ scenarios andnarrative techniques that res-
onate with contemporary concerns about race politics and reconciliation.
Moreover, theyareframedbyparatextualelementsthatreferencereconciliation.
Manyhaveappearedamongthewinners,orontheshortor longlists,ofnational
literaryprizes includingtheMilesFranklinAward,andhaveoftenincitedpublic
debate.
KateGrenville’snovelshavemade interestingcase studiesof thewayreaders
usebookclubstoaddressthedemandsofreconciliationinAustralia.Grenville’s
The SecretRiverwas attackedby anumberof critics andacademics. Somehis-
torians and literary criticspositioned thenovel as a “sorry text” that appeals to
ordinaryreadersbecause itassuageswhiteguilt.2TheSecretRiver, in theeyesof
its detractors, is complicit with the very ideologies that it ostensibly writes
against. Our investigationswith book clubs about their reception of this novel
havebeenmotivated in largepart as a response to these critical anxieties.
We undertook a study with five book clubs, recording their conversations
aboutTheSecretRiverandconductingfocusgroupdiscussionsafterward.Inour
focus groups, we observed a range of reading positions adopted. While the
concerns of the novel’s detractors were sometimes confirmed; inmany cases,
theywere not. Readers’ responseswere rarely simple, and the dynamics of the
groupdiscussionsproducedvarious,andat timeshighlyambivalent, readingsof
thenovel. Since then,MaggieNolanhasexamined the receptionofothernovels
suchasScott’sThatDeadmanDance,andMiller’sTheLandscapeof Farewell.3In
so doing, we have explored how book club readers grapple with the power of
fictiontorepresentcontestedhistoriesandtoaddressthechallengesoffindinga
just rapprochementbetween Indigenousandnon-IndigenousAustralians.
Thework thatwe have undertaken is informed by research on reading as a
social practice.Our research focuseson “howreadersbeyond theacademy talk
about, use andmake sense” of literary texts.4 Such a perspective has a long
tradition5yetlargelyrunscontratodominanttrendsinliterarystudies.Toooften
the study of literary reception is focused on the hermeneutic practices of pro-
fessional literaryscholarsandtheworktheyundertake inscholarlypublications
and classrooms; or on socio-cultural formations that underpin the tastes and
2 SeeWeaver-Hightower2010.SeealsoNolan/Clarke2011;Clarke/Nolan2014;Nolan/
Clarke2014.
3 Nolan2016;Nolan2020.
4 Procter And Benwell 2014, p. 1; See also, Chabot Davis 2014; Fuller Sedo 2013;
Hartley/Turvey2004;Long2003.
5 See, for instance,Richards1929. MaggieNolan/RobertClarke
/RebekahBrown232
Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0
Über Bücher reden
Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften
- Titel
- Über Bücher reden
- Untertitel
- Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften
- Autor
- Doris Moser
- Herausgeber
- Claudia Dürr
- Verlag
- V&R unipress
- Datum
- 2021
- Sprache
- deutsch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-7370-1323-9
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 23.2 cm
- Seiten
- 262
- Kategorie
- Lehrbücher