Encountering Difference in the Australian Outback : Kim
Mahood's Landscape Memoirs

C 2020

Encountering Difference in the Australian Outback : Kim Mahood's Landscape Memoirs

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Základní údaje

Originální název

Encountering Difference in the Australian Outback : Kim Mahood's Landscape Memoirs

Autoři

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Vydání

Wilmington, Delaware, USA, Encountering Difference : New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender, od s. 47-60, 14 s. Series in Literary Studies, 2020

Nakladatel

Vernon Press

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00114010

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-62273-851-9

Klíčová slova anglicky

Kim Mahood; Australia; postcolonial belonging; race relations; travel writing

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 30. 3. 2021 13:14, Mgr. Zuzana Matulíková

Anotace

V originále

Australia has entered the 21st century with an ambitious project of Reconciliation which aimed to address the complicated issue of settler-Indigenous relationships. In the face of the revisionist history of violent colonization, Stolen Generations, and Indigenous land claims, some Australians have responded with a sense of spatial anxiety, unsettlement and even unbelonging. Among these were public intellectuals, historians, artists, and writers, most typically associated with white, liberal, middle-class subjectivity, who in their personal non-fiction attempted to articulate the complexities of belonging in a land which was stolen from the First Australians, yet whose landscape and environment they cherish as their home. They combined various genres, such as memoir, travel writing, historical essay or nature writing, to explore the uncanny paradox of their being simultaneously in-place and out-of-place—a marker of Australian postcolony (Gelder and Jacobs 24). One of these public intellectuals is the Australian artist and writer Kim Mahood, one of the contemporary women artists who have contributed to re-thinking the dialectic of whiteness and Indigeneity while foregrounding the aspects of gender. In 2000, she published her first, critically acclaimed memoir Cry for a Dry Lake in which she combined travel writing, biography, regional historiography and diary. Described by critics as the “most complex representations of the Australian Outback” (Lynch 75), one that offers a “new history of the frontier” (Ashcroft, Devlin-Glass, and McCredden 167), this highly complex and creative narrative draws on several recurrent tropes particular to the Australian context: journey to the Outback as a way of searching for spiritual belonging; encounter with Indigeneity as a way of reflecting on whiteness and settler identity; female perspective as a way of commenting on settler Australian gender politics; and also a peculiar love letter to the unique landscape as a way of coming to terms with the haunting past of colonization. My chapter compares this text to Mahood’s recently published “landscape memoir” Position Doubtful (2016) to argue that Mahood, proclaimed by Bruce Pascoe on the back cover as “a writer of country,” elaborates on her life-long project of remapping not only landscapes and memories, as the subtitle suggests, but also the history of gender and race relations in contemporary Australia.

Návaznosti

GA19-11234S, projekt VaV

Název: Topos sounáležitosti s místem v memoárech australských osadníků

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Topos sounáležitosti s místem v memoárech australských osadníků

Citovat

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Encountering Difference in the Australian Outback : Kim Mahood's Landscape Memoirs. In Adar, Gigi; Filipova, Lenka. Encountering Difference : New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender. Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Vernon Press, 2020, s. 47-60. Series in Literary Studies. ISBN 978-1-62273-851-9.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Encountering Difference in the Australian Outback : Kim Mahood's Landscape Memoirs. In Adar, Gigi; Filipova, Lenka. \textit{Encountering Difference : New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender}. Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Vernon Press, 2020, s.~47-60. Series in Literary Studies. ISBN~978-1-62273-851-9.

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