“Kin-fused” revenge : Rewriting the canon and settler belonging
in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife

J 2022

“Kin-fused” revenge : Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Basic information

Original name

“Kin-fused” revenge : Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife

Authors

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

Edition

Journal of Postcolonial Writing, London, Taylor and Francis, 2022, 1744-9855

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.400

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129048

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2051867

UT WoS

000779637900001

Keywords in English

Australian literature; postcolonial Australia; Australian plays; Leah Purcell; The Drover’s Wife; settler belonging

Abstract

V originále

One of the many rewritings of Australian Henry Lawson’s iconic 1892 short story “The Drover’s Wife” is the 2016 play The Drover’s Wife, written by Aboriginal actor, writer, and director Leah Purcell. Purcell’s rewriting evidences a much more significant presence of Indigeneity. The play not only introduces 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: a tour de force of frontier violence with disturbing and haunting images of racism, rape, lynching, and murder, the play confronts the foundations of the literary canon and of settler belonging, providing an alternative to both. Borrowing Fiona Probyn-Rapsey’s term “kin-fused”, this close reading of the play’s text argues that its resolution implies a critique of Indigenous–settler reconciliation, pointing to a lingering desire to redress colonial violence, desire embodied in the play by a “kin-fused” revenge.

Links

GA19-11234S, research and development project

Name: Topos sounáležitosti s místem v memoárech australských osadníků

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. “Kin-fused” revenge : Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. London: Taylor and Francis, 2022, vol. 58, No 4, p. 511-523. ISSN 1744-9855. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2051867.

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