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Epigraph: Ubi bene, ibi patria.
Affiliation Notes
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19th-Century Australian Travel Writing
Edward Willson Landor (1811-1878) was a solicitor, writer, newspaper editor and pioneer. In The Bushman; or, Life in a New Country he established his experiences in Australia by emphasising the lack of respect that the Empire and its public had for the colonies. It presented the colonies as essential to the continuing reign and power of Britain. Although the text included Landon's sensationalised adventures in Australia, such as kangaroo hunts and getting lost in the bush, it also focused on morality, the settlers, and good governance, told through a first-person narration.
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Writing, Space and Authority : Producing and Critiquing Settler Jurisdiction in Western Australia
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May vol. 41 no. 2 2017; (p. 141-155) 'On the edge of Stirling Gardens in central Perth, Western Australia, five large, old-fashioned pen nibs stand in a curved line, their tips in the ground. Anne Neil’s sculpture, Memory Markers, commemorates the history of this site, which includes the Supreme Court. Taking this sculpture as an emblem of writing, which in the context of its setting highlights the relationship between literature and law, this article explores the image of the pen in the ground. As a symbol of literacy, it evokes the powerful network of discourses—particularly law, science and religion—that underwrote the imperial project. It signals, in Michele Grossman’s terms, “the event of literacy [that] radically interrupts and disrupts—but never eliminates—pre-existing Aboriginal epistemologies”. The article goes on to explore the sculpture as a symbol of the assertion of jurisdiction, the speaking of law in and over colonised space. It analyses a group of written texts associated with this site, from colonial legal assertions of jurisdiction over Aboriginal people in Edward Landor’s The Bushman (1847), through a proclamation under the Aborigines Act 1905 (WA), to Stephen Kinnane’s Indigenous family memoir of life under that act, Shadow Lines (2004).' (Publication abstract) -
Some Darker Sides of Digitization; or, Disappearing Data, Doubtful Descriptions, and Other Deformations of Print
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Style : A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism , vol. 49 no. 3 2015; (p. 321-333) 'In Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print (2009), Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland write of 'the 'fast fires' of digital obsolescence.' It is not only disappearing data that constitute a dark side of digitization, however. Its bleaker aspects are also represented in doubtful descriptions of works by booksellers on electronic catalogues and in deformed-and sometimes stolen-digitized editions of works originally published in printed form. Through four case studies derived chiefly from pre-twentieth-century Australian and Canadian literature, this article both explores some unattractive features of digitization and suggests ways in which they might be mitigated.' (Publication abstract)
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Some Darker Sides of Digitization; or, Disappearing Data, Doubtful Descriptions, and Other Deformations of Print
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Style : A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism , vol. 49 no. 3 2015; (p. 321-333) 'In Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print (2009), Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland write of 'the 'fast fires' of digital obsolescence.' It is not only disappearing data that constitute a dark side of digitization, however. Its bleaker aspects are also represented in doubtful descriptions of works by booksellers on electronic catalogues and in deformed-and sometimes stolen-digitized editions of works originally published in printed form. Through four case studies derived chiefly from pre-twentieth-century Australian and Canadian literature, this article both explores some unattractive features of digitization and suggests ways in which they might be mitigated.' (Publication abstract) -
Writing, Space and Authority : Producing and Critiquing Settler Jurisdiction in Western Australia
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May vol. 41 no. 2 2017; (p. 141-155) 'On the edge of Stirling Gardens in central Perth, Western Australia, five large, old-fashioned pen nibs stand in a curved line, their tips in the ground. Anne Neil’s sculpture, Memory Markers, commemorates the history of this site, which includes the Supreme Court. Taking this sculpture as an emblem of writing, which in the context of its setting highlights the relationship between literature and law, this article explores the image of the pen in the ground. As a symbol of literacy, it evokes the powerful network of discourses—particularly law, science and religion—that underwrote the imperial project. It signals, in Michele Grossman’s terms, “the event of literacy [that] radically interrupts and disrupts—but never eliminates—pre-existing Aboriginal epistemologies”. The article goes on to explore the sculpture as a symbol of the assertion of jurisdiction, the speaking of law in and over colonised space. It analyses a group of written texts associated with this site, from colonial legal assertions of jurisdiction over Aboriginal people in Edward Landor’s The Bushman (1847), through a proclamation under the Aborigines Act 1905 (WA), to Stephen Kinnane’s Indigenous family memoir of life under that act, Shadow Lines (2004).' (Publication abstract)
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