Colonialism & imperialism - Literary portrayal
Articles
- Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
‘How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucault called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation…
1 June 2011 - ‘Did He Want to Mix and Mate with this Man?’: Mateship, Modernism and Homoerotic Primitivism
Focuses on English writers in Australia, and what these journeys mean 'in relation to the contested term "Australian modernism"'. 'In particular, I argue that the…
1 May 2012 - Unknown Australia: Rosa Praed’s Vanished Race
Examines the presentation of colonialism in some of Praed’s work, in particular in her novel Fugitive Anne with its fantasy of the lost Lemurians.
1 May 2005 - Colonialism, Racial Violence and Loss: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and The Roving Party
Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972) and Rohan Wilson’s The Roving Party (2011) resonate with the violence of the colonising process. The books…
30 May 2015