Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian
Memoirs

B 2026

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Základní údaje

Originální název

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

Autoři

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Vydání

první. London, 250 s. Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture, 2026

Nakladatel

Anthem Press

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Odborná kniha

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-83999-057-1

Klíčová slova anglicky

settler belonging; Australian literature; Australian memoir

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 5. 2026 13:39, Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This book analyzes how settler (un)belonging is narrativized in a particular literary genre, that of memoir, written by Australian public intellectuals, such as historians, artists, writers, and commentators, in the period after 2000. I call these narratives memoirs of settler belonging. Becoming a popular genre in Australia, they have one thing in common: they all ask and seek answers to the implicit question, how to belong as a white settler who bears witness to the legacy of violent colonization vis-à-vis continuing Indigenous dispossession? How to justify the settler presence and love of the land that was stolen from First Australians? The individual chapters examine various groups of memoirs produced by Australian public intellectuals who textualize their settler anxiety and their desire to belong ethically. The groups include historians’ memoirs, White women’s travel narratives, experimental place-writing, and eco- and landscape memoirs. The book advances an argument that throughout almost two decades, a shift can be traced in representing settler (un)belonging textually. While in the earlier memoirs setter anxiety was visibly thematized and an active approach to resolving the impasse of (un)belonging was sought, the more recent memoirs, particularly those morphing into landscape- and eco-memoir, have moved away from the critical reflection on settler anxiety as being generated by the continuing Indigenous dispossession, and replaced this anxiety of settler belonging with a new perspective which brings forward the concept of settler belonging based on an intimate historical and environmental knowledge of local landscapes, and on affective engagement with the Country.

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. Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs. první. London: Anthem Press, 2026, 250 s. Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture. ISBN 978-1-83999-057-1.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. \textit{Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs}. první. London: Anthem Press, 2026, 250 s. Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture. ISBN~978-1-83999-057-1.

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