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2021
‘Kin-fused’ Revenge : Alter/Native Canon in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife
HORÁKOVÁ, MartinaBasic information
Original name
‘Kin-fused’ Revenge : Alter/Native Canon in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife
Authors
HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
English Department Research Seminar, May 5, 2021, University of Pannonia, Veszprem, Hungary, 2021
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Language
English
Type of outcome
Vyžádané přednášky
Field of Study
60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher
Hungary
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119572
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
Australia; belonging; Alter/Native canon; Leah Purcell; Drover's Wife
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International impact
Změněno: 31/3/2022 12:54, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
In the talk I will explore one of the many rewritings of Australian colonial writer Henry Lawson’s iconic short story “The Drover’s Wife” (1892)—the play The Drover’s Wife (2016) written by Aboriginal actor, writer and director Leah Purcell. The main source for Purcell’s rewriting is a much larger and more significant presence of Indigeneity. The play not only introduces the character of Yadaka, an Aboriginal fugitive, as a key character, but the drover’s wife herself is revealed to have Indigenous origins. This powerful twist offers several implications: the paly, a tour de force of frontier violence with haunting images of racism, rape, lynching, and murder, unflinchingly confronts the very foundations of established literary canon as well as settler belonging, providing an alter/Native to both. I borrow Fiona Probyn-Rapsey’s term “kin-fused” to argue that the play’s resolution implies a critique of Indigenous-settler reconciliation by pointing to a lingering desire to redress colonial violence, embodied in the play by a promise of “kin-fused” revenge.
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