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'The ghosts of Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe have been a key focus of its critical reception. This article offers an alternative reading of these ghosts, arguing that Tsiolkas writes trauma fiction to challenge the totalising discourse of postmodern governmentality, to assert the impossibility of an end to history, and to write fiction which haunts its readers to enact an ethical relationship with the traumatic past.' (Author's abstract)
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'What's Haunting Dead Europe?' Trauma Fiction as a Reaction to Postmodern Governmentality
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Subjects:
- Dead Europe 2005 single work novel
- 'Blood and Land and Ghosts' : Haunting Words in Christos Tsiolkas's Dead Europe 2007 single work criticism
- Specters of Berlin in A. L. McCann's Subtopia and Christo Tsioklas's Dead Europe 2007 single work criticism
- Interview with Christos Tsiolkas : 'What Does Fiction Do?' : On Dead Europe: Ethics and Aesthetics 2008 single work interview
- Traumascapes : The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy 2005 single work non-fiction
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