A Crisis of Settler Belonging?: Landscape Memoirs by Tim
Winton, Kim Mahood, and Don Watson

k 2019

A Crisis of Settler Belonging?: Landscape Memoirs by Tim Winton, Kim Mahood, and Don Watson

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Základní údaje

Originální název

A Crisis of Settler Belonging?: Landscape Memoirs by Tim Winton, Kim Mahood, and Don Watson

Autoři

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

ANU Conference 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Crisis: Social, Environmental, Institutional' 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00108301

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

settler belonging; Australia; landscape memoirs; Tim Winton; Kim Mahood; Don Watson

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 28. 4. 2020 21:23, Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

In her 2002 article “How Does the Settler Belong?” Fiona Probyn points to the “crisis of [settler] belonging” as symptomatic of settler (post)colonialism. In Australia, spatial anxiety and what Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs described in Uncanny Australia as “the postcolonial uncanny” was theorized particularly around the turn of the 21st century—a moment of historical revision of the nation’s foundational narrative of settlement—when a number of authors, including historians Peter Read, Mark McKenna, and Inga Clendinnen; fictocritics Stephen Muecke or Katrina Schlunke; and feminist writers/artists Gail Jones, Kim Mahood or Margaret Sommerville, published self-reflective, personalized narratives in which they commented on settler (un)belonging. These texts, which Gillian Whitlock labeled “white intellectual memoirs,” often reveal a sense of complicity, responsibility and awareness of one’s whiteness, as they look for ways to articulate new ways of personal as well as national belonging. My presentation will explore whether the debate about the crisis of settler belonging is still relevant today and if yes, what forms does it take in public intellectuals’ nonfiction and memoir? As examples of contemporary attempts to come to terms with and frame aesthetically settler belonging in the postcolony such as Australia, a short analysis of three recently published landscape memoirs will be used: Don Watson’s The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia (2014), Tim Winton’s Island Home: A Landscape Memoir (2015), and Kim Mahood’s Position Doubtful: Mapping Landscapes and Memories (2016). I will argue that although these narratives share a number of common themes, such as the authors’ appreciation of (outback) landscapes and its aesthetics, uneasiness about the troubling history of frontier violence, and environmentalist concerns, they communicate different sensibilities.

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. A Crisis of Settler Belonging?: Landscape Memoirs by Tim Winton, Kim Mahood, and Don Watson. In ANU Conference 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Crisis: Social, Environmental, Institutional'. 2019.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. A Crisis of Settler Belonging?: Landscape Memoirs by Tim Winton, Kim Mahood, and Don Watson. In \textit{ANU Conference 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Crisis: Social, Environmental, Institutional'}. 2019.

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