This essay examines a series of Australian texts in an attempt to perceive the ways in which East Timor has functioned as a test of the operation of Australian memory and the processing of national shame over the failure of the nation to aid a neighbouring people who had aided Australia at great cost during the Second World War. After introducing the notion of shame and the contrast between official Australian policy and public sentiment over the issue of East Timor from the date of the Indonesian invasion in 1975, a contrast rooted in the nation's sense of itself as being a sponsor of freedom, democracy and the fair go, the essay examines a series of fictional texts dealing with East Timor in some way, and then returns to the concept of shame and its relevance in this context. The texts dealt with include fiction for adults and children: Tony Maniaty's The Children Must Dance (1984), Gail Jones's Other Places (1992), Bill Green's Cleaning Up (1993), Kerry Collison's The Timor Man (1998), Libby Gleeson's Refuge (1998) and Josef Vondra's No-name Bird (2000), along with the Australian-Canadian miniseries Answered by Fire (2006) and the Australian film Balibo (Robert Connolly, 2009). As expected, concerned observers share many features of their reaction to events in East Timor, but inevitably, as they read East Timor they are also reading Australia and its relation to an ethics of conviction that might have dealt more honourably with the invasion and oppression on its doorstep. The analysis draws on the work of Jeffrey Olick, Avishai Margalit and Michael Morgan in its approach to regret, shame and memory.View full textDownload full textKeywordsAustralia, East Timor, fiction, history, memory, shameRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2010.516098
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机译：本文研究了一系列澳大利亚文本，以试图了解东帝汶如何发挥作用，以检验澳大利亚的记忆运作以及因国家未能援助曾经援助过的邻国而引起的民族耻辱第二次世界大战期间，澳大利亚付出了沉重的代价。自从1975年印度尼西亚入侵以来，引入了耻辱的概念，以及澳大利亚官方政策与东帝汶问题上的公众情绪之间的反差之后，这种反差根植于该国自身对自由，民主和民主的支持者的观念。公平地讲，本文研究了一系列以某种方式处理东帝汶的虚构文本，然后回到了耻辱的概念及其在这种情况下的相关性。涉及的文字包括针对成人和儿童的小说：托尼·马尼亚蒂（Tony Maniaty）的《儿童必须跳舞》（The Children Must Dance）（1984），盖尔·琼斯（Gail Jones）的《其他地方》（1992），比尔·格林（Bill Green）的《清理》（1993），凯利·科里森（Kerry Collison）的《帝汶人》（The Timor Man）（1998），利比·格里森（Libby Gleeson）的《避难所》 1998年）和约瑟夫·冯德拉（Josef Vondra）的“无名鸟”（2000年），以及澳大利亚-加拿大迷你电影《大火接吻》（2006年）和澳大利亚电影《巴里波》（Robert Connolly，2009年）。正如预期的那样，有关观察员分享了他们对东帝汶事件的反应的许多特征，但不可避免地，当他们阅读东帝汶时，他们也在阅读澳大利亚及其与信念伦理的关系，这种关系可能更光荣地涉及了对东帝汶的入侵和压迫。它的家门口。该分析借鉴了Jeffrey Olick，Avishai Margalit和Michael Morgan的后悔，羞耻和记忆方法。查看全文下载全文关键字澳大利亚，东帝汶，小说，历史，记忆，羞耻弗朗西斯在线”，services_compact：“ citeulike，netvibes，twitter，technorati，美味，linkedin，facebook，stumbleupon，digg，google，更多”，发布号：“ ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b”};添加到候选列表链接永久链接http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2010.516098
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