Deep Immersion

Submitted by NT2 on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:16

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Deep Immersion est un hypertexte narratif qui raconte la saga d'une famille juive allemande immigrée en Australie au XIXème siècle, sur plusieurs générations.

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http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk

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April 30, 2007

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Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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I'm following phantoms people whose details have dwindled away. I'm trying to fill in traces, outlines, of other people's lives, most of them strangers to me. A presumptuous quest, but I have become enmeshed in it. What am I interested in?

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«I am writing a novel, a work of fiction, that incorporates historical detail, family history, and popular mythology of the Western Australian community. Through the details of family and social history, I aim to tell another version of some of the history of Perth from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. This story belongs to my family, but to generalise, this family has never been particularly interested in defining itself, in making public any aspects of its story. The writing will be textured with forgotten voices, it will be self-reflexive, and will tackle the paradoxes involved in telling stories from within the Western Australian family I belong to, one that resists telling its own stories because of shame and the lack of an authoritative, or socially given, voice. From family history to social history, my interest is in the material that sits on the margins: the unspoken and generally unwritten histories of people who inhabited marginal spaces within this society. Histories obscured by silences. What Michel Foucault names as counter-histories. I am interested in the material which is not recorded or spoken, which nonetheless 'speaks' of a shame that shapes the ever-developing identity of a family and a community.»

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Deep Immersion

White, Terri-Ann