Tracking our country in settler literature
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This is a narrative paper that tracks a story of Aboriginal representation and the concept of nation across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through some important Australian texts. I read this assemblage of settler literature through the cultural metaphor of tracking, because tracking is as much about anticipation as it is following. Tracking is about reading: reading land and people before and after whitefellas. It is about entering into the consciousness of the person or people...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Leane, Jeanine | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-10T04:46:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-10T04:46:22Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1447-8986 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12381 | |
dc.description.abstract | This is a narrative paper that tracks a story of Aboriginal representation and the concept of nation across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through some important Australian texts. I read this assemblage of settler literature through the cultural metaphor of tracking, because tracking is as much about anticipation as it is following. Tracking is about reading: reading land and people before and after whitefellas. It is about entering into the consciousness of the person or people of interest. Tracking is not just about reading the physical signs; it is about reading the mind. It is not just about seeing and hearing what is there; it is as much about what is not there. Tony Morrisson wrote of mapping ‘the critical geography’ (3) of the white literary imagination in her work on Africanist presence in American Literature, Playing in the Dark. This paper tracks the settler imagination on Aboriginal presence in Australian literature in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Copyright Information: © The Author | |
dc.format | 17 pages | |
dc.publisher | Association for the Study of Australian Literature | |
dc.rights | © The Author | |
dc.source | Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 14.3 (2014): 1-17 | |
dc.source.uri | http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/3294/4109 | |
dc.subject | Aboriginal | |
dc.subject | settler | |
dc.subject | literature | |
dc.title | Tracking our country in settler literature | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 14 | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 210301 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u8205243xPUB795 | |
local.publisher.url | http://asaliterature.com/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Leane, Jeanine, Australian Centre for Indigenous History, The Australian National University | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IN140100010 | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IN12000009 | |
local.identifier.essn | 1833-6027 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 3 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 17 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 950503 - Understanding Australia's Past | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-12-20T07:40:59Z | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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