Memoirs of Settler (National) Belonging : Tim Winton's Island
Home and Kim Mahood's Position Doubtful

k 2018

Memoirs of Settler (National) Belonging : Tim Winton's Island Home and Kim Mahood's Position Doubtful

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Basic information

Original name

Memoirs of Settler (National) Belonging : Tim Winton's Island Home and Kim Mahood's Position Doubtful

Authors

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

EASA Biennial Conference "On NAtionalism, Old and New : Europe, Australia and their Others", 17-19 January, 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Spain

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00105669

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

settler belonging; Australia; memoirs; Tim Winton; Kim Mahood;

Abstract

V originále

In the presentation I compare and contrast two recently published "landscape memoirs" - Island Home (2015) by Tim Winton, and Position Doubtful (2016) by Kim Mahood - from the perspective of how they portray personal and national belonging. Firstly, they will be contextualized withing the tradition of what Gillian Whitlock calls "the white intellectual memoir". Then, it will be shown how both texts emphasize geography and poetics of the country as the main coordinates for outlining ways in which the quintessential landscape shapes people's identities as Australians. Finally, I will argue that although Winton's and Mahood's narratives share a number of common themes, such as their love of (outback) landcapes, appreciation of its aesthetics, uneasiness about the troubling history of frontier violence, and environmentalist concerns, they communicate different sensibilities: while Winton's text seems to be saying that for settler Australians to reach a mature sense of belonging (as people and nation) they need to stop exploiting the land as "territory" and develop a responsible and caring relationship to it as "country", Mahood's text offers a more ambivalent and less resolved account of ways of settler belonging, thematizing vulnerability and anxiety of the precarious settler presence in the Australian outback.

Links

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Acronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Memoirs of Settler (National) Belonging : Tim Winton's Island Home and Kim Mahood's Position Doubtful. In EASA Biennial Conference "On NAtionalism, Old and New : Europe, Australia and their Others", 17-19 January, 2018, Barcelona, Spain. 2018.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Memoirs of Settler (National) Belonging : Tim Winton's Island Home and Kim Mahood's Position Doubtful. In \textit{EASA Biennial Conference ''On NAtionalism, Old and New : Europe, Australia and their Others'', 17-19 January, 2018, Barcelona, Spain}. 2018.

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