Oranges and Sunshine: The Story of a Traumatic Encounter

Oranges and Sunshine: The Story of a Traumatic Encounter

This paper will rely on some well-known theories on trauma, memory and ethics to study how Jim Loach’s debut film Oranges and Sunshine (2010) testifies to the traumatic deportation of up to 150,000 British children to distant parts of the Empire, mainly Australia, until 1970. Oranges and Sunshine wa...

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Main Author: Dolores Herrero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-10-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
Jim Loach
Margaret Humphreys
trauma theory
memory studies
Australian studies
postcolonial trauma
Lost Children of Empire
biopolitics
missing person
homo sacer
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/4/714

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