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Making an Expedition of Herself : Lady Jane Franklin as Queen of the Tasmanian Extinction Narrative
2014
single work
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;'This paper compares fictional portraits of Lady Jane Franklin in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting (2008), Sten Nadolny’s The Discovery of Slowness (1997), Adrienne Eberhard’s verse novel Jane, Lady Franklin (2004) and Jennifer Livett’s novel fragment, ‘Prologue: A Fool on the Island’.
'These fictions variously reconstruct Franklin’s vilified roles as modern female traveller and social reformer in Tasmanian colonial society. They also evoke her public lamentations over the loss of her explorer husband on the doomed North-West Passage expedition. While some of these novels privilege white male viewpoints, others foreground Franklin in her guises of political agitator, traveller, and hubristic public mourner. Some of these works also depict intercultural relationships between Franklin and Indigenous Palawa children as central to their elegiac evocations of settler mourning.
'I argue that these novels differently show how Franklin’s decades-long grief ‘performance’, traversing two hemispheres, served a personal memorial function while guaranteeing her tentative access to, and ‘safe passage’ through, the male-dominated imperial political, social and cultural discourses of her day. I argue finally that, with the exception of Livett and Nadolny, these dramatic ‘retrievals’ of the figure of Jane Franklin in relation to Indigenous subjects, serve a limited critique of the parochial, racist colonial culture of early ‘Hobarton’. A complex Jane Franklin character is often elided within these novelised landscapes of dispossession, with Franklin sometimes (mis)cast as wicked queen in the construction of racial extinction narratives. ' (Author's abstract)
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A Touch of the Past
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Mattoid , no. 55 2006; (p. 199-202)
— Review of Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry -
[Review] Jane, Lady Franklin
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Autumn no. 2 2006; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry -
Jane, Lady Franklin
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 31 2005; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry -
Poetry
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 84-87)
— Review of A Tasmanian Paradise Lost : A Poem 2003 selected work poetry ; Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry ; Other Gravities 2003 selected work poetry ; The Year Nothing 2003 selected work poetry
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A Triumph of Empathy as Lady Jane is Brought to Life
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 June 2005; (p. 16)
— Review of Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry -
Poetry
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 84-87)
— Review of A Tasmanian Paradise Lost : A Poem 2003 selected work poetry ; Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry ; Other Gravities 2003 selected work poetry ; The Year Nothing 2003 selected work poetry -
Jane, Lady Franklin
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 31 2005; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry -
[Review] Jane, Lady Franklin
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Autumn no. 2 2006; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry -
A Touch of the Past
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Mattoid , no. 55 2006; (p. 199-202)
— Review of Jane, Lady Franklin 2004 selected work poetry -
Making an Expedition of Herself : Lady Jane Franklin as Queen of the Tasmanian Extinction Narrative
2014
single work
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;'This paper compares fictional portraits of Lady Jane Franklin in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting (2008), Sten Nadolny’s The Discovery of Slowness (1997), Adrienne Eberhard’s verse novel Jane, Lady Franklin (2004) and Jennifer Livett’s novel fragment, ‘Prologue: A Fool on the Island’.
'These fictions variously reconstruct Franklin’s vilified roles as modern female traveller and social reformer in Tasmanian colonial society. They also evoke her public lamentations over the loss of her explorer husband on the doomed North-West Passage expedition. While some of these novels privilege white male viewpoints, others foreground Franklin in her guises of political agitator, traveller, and hubristic public mourner. Some of these works also depict intercultural relationships between Franklin and Indigenous Palawa children as central to their elegiac evocations of settler mourning.
'I argue that these novels differently show how Franklin’s decades-long grief ‘performance’, traversing two hemispheres, served a personal memorial function while guaranteeing her tentative access to, and ‘safe passage’ through, the male-dominated imperial political, social and cultural discourses of her day. I argue finally that, with the exception of Livett and Nadolny, these dramatic ‘retrievals’ of the figure of Jane Franklin in relation to Indigenous subjects, serve a limited critique of the parochial, racist colonial culture of early ‘Hobarton’. A complex Jane Franklin character is often elided within these novelised landscapes of dispossession, with Franklin sometimes (mis)cast as wicked queen in the construction of racial extinction narratives. ' (Author's abstract)