77-102 ) Abstract 'War emerges from, rests on, and exaggerates state exceptionalism. The article therefore explores how Australian fiction might stimulate discussion among Japanese students about contentious aspects of their nation’s history, and lead to the cultivation of cross-cultural knowledge and empathy through imagining lives that are different from their own.'(Publication abstract) War and Communities of Suffering : Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North Susan Strehle,Ĭontemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community : After the Wreck 2020 (p. Previous scholarship on the novel has not addressed its subject matter in relation to Japan’s continuing equivocations about its activities during the Asia-Pacific War. The article serves as an exploratory study in how The Narrow Road might be taught in a Japanese university course on Japan-Australia relations through literary texts. The novel calls attention to differing military narratives as constructed by aggressor and victimized nations through representing Australian prisoners of war captured by the Imperial Japanese Army to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. 'This article explores historical and literary connections between Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013).

Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North Liz Shek-Noble,

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