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Adaptations
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
( dir. Richard Flanagan
)
Adelaide
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Artist Services
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1997
Z1033852
1997
single work
film/TV
'It's 1968. Sixteen-year-old Sonja leaves her alcoholic father and troubled past, gets on a bus and never looks back. Twenty years later she decides it's time to find out what she was running from. Single and pregnant, she returns to the migrant worker's camp in the Tasmanian Highlands she once called home and finally uncovers the truth she wasn't told as a child.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 18/3/2014)
Notes
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Dedication: For Archie Flanagan, Helen Flanagan, Anton Smolej. Forgive me its failings, but I tell it with love.
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Discussion notes available.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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More Than ‘Rotten Apples’ : Australian Literature and the Possibility of Redemption for Men Who Abuse
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 1 2020;'Popular analyses of gendered violence focus on the need for an individually-focussed approach to the problem which calls for greater responsibility and accountability for individual men. Men who use violence are often viewed as bad apples; or as deviant to the moral codes which are necessary in a moral society. But contemporary Australian authors examine the socio-cultural, political and economic structures that promulgate inequality according to gender, class, age and culture. This inequality manifests in the gendered violence which Christos Tsiolkas, Richard Flanagan, Charlotte Wood, Zoe Morrison and Sofie Laguna portray as a product of neo-liberalism. The men within their fiction are affected by disconnection and individualism within our neo-liberal, patriarchal society. The male protagonists are subjects of, as well as producers of dominant practices of masculinity. Equally, their female characters are not merely passive victims of gendered power as they protest against and challenge the structures that support inequality. Through post-structural analyses which leaves room for contradiction and nuance within characters, these contemporary Australian authors are able to maintain hope for difference and redemption in the lives of men who use violence and abuse, and the women and children who are affected. They consciously avoid separating people in to categories of good or evil, or just and unjust, given that these dichotomies are central to the patriarchal and capitalistic systems of individuality and competition which they critique.' (Publication abstract)
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Richard Flanagan's "Post-post" and the Mapping of the Altermodern
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Richard Flanagan : Critical Essays 2018; (p. 103-117) -
"Smashing and Singing and Sobbing and Howling": Sound and Richard Flanagan's Tasmania
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Richard Flanagan : Critical Essays 2018; (p. 59-71) -
Circles of Violence: Historical Constellations in 'Death of a River Guide' and 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping'
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Richard Flanagan : Critical Essays 2018; (p. 21-41) -
Displaced Persons (1947–52) in Australia : Memory in Autobiography
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Migrant Nation : Australian Culture, Society and Identity 2017; (p. 151-176)
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Lives Sustained by the Memory of Love
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 October 1997; (p. C11)
— Review of The Sound of One Hand Clapping 1997 single work novel -
Echoes of Demidenko and Tasmanian Madness
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 October 1997; (p. 11s)
— Review of The Sound of One Hand Clapping 1997 single work novel -
Lighting the Fire of Language Under a Migrant's Experience
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 November 1997; (p. 12)
— Review of The Sound of One Hand Clapping 1997 single work novel -
Tassie's Deep Blues
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 November 1997; (p. rev 29)
— Review of The Sound of One Hand Clapping 1997 single work novel -
Picture of a Thousand Words
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 November 1997; (p. 23)
— Review of The Sound of One Hand Clapping 1997 single work novel -
Australian Writing : Deep Ecology and Julia Leigh's The Hunter
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 1 no. 2002; (p. 19-31) -
Slovene Immigrants in Australia in Richard Flanagan's Novel The Sound of One Hand Clapping
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Acta Neophilologica , vol. 34 no. 1-2 2001; (p. 17-29, 122) -
Richard Flanagan's Novel and Film 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping' and Australia's Multicultural Film Genre
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 48 no. 2003; (p. 127-143) Postcolonial Subjects : Canadian and Australian Perspectives 2004; (p. 179-196) -
Re-Thinking Marginality : Class, Identity and Desire in Contemporary Australian Writing
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 1 2004; (p. 45-68) -
Memories in a Suitcase : Migrancy and Translation in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections 2004; (p. 264-271) Healy explores the adaptation of novels to film, and the processes this involves of translation and interpretation. She focuses on The Sound of One Hand Clapping, where both novel and film were written by the author at much the same time, with the translation being something of a dialogical process.
Awards
- 1998 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 1998 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Fiction
- 1998 winner Australian Booksellers Association Awards — BookPeople Book of the Year
- Tasmania,
- Butlers Gorge, Central Highlands, Tasmania,
- Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1990s