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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Realigning the Spiritual Compass : Representations of Terrorism in Some Recent Australian Fiction
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'This article examines how terrorism is represented in three Australian novels, Janette Turner Hospital's Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) and Orpheus Lost (2007), and Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist (2006). It argues that, despite their ostensible topic, the novels tend to ignore or distort the reality of terrorism and its causes. Flanagan is more interested in the way some individuals and groups exploit the fear of terrorism to achieve their own ends, while Turner Hospital creates a paranoid world which does not allow any real understanding of what terrorism is about. The social preoccupations in the three novels, insightful as they are, remain largely disconnected from terrorism.' Source: Xavier Pons.

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23-24 http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/jeasa1apons.pdf Realigning the Spiritual Compass : Representations of Terrorism in Some Recent Australian Fictionsmall AustLit logo Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia
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