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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Spaces of Fiction/Fictions of Space : Postcolonial Place and Literary Deixis
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'Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Becketts "semi-colonial" play Waiting for Godot' (Provided by publisher).

Notes

  • Notes on Translations Introduction: Deixis - Borges/Calvino PART I: THE SPACES OF FICTION Deixis and I - Beckett I From Deictics to DeiXis - Beckett II Narrative Space - Conrad I/Gide/Kristeva/Shklovsky Anadiplosis - Conrad II/Dabydeen/Wolf PART II: THE FICTIONS OF SPACE Spatial Amnesia - Ondaatje/Desai Imperial Deixis - Naipaul/Dunbar/Keats/Kipling/Csaire/Rhys/Roy/Rushdie Self-Reflexive Deixis And The Aporias Of The Nation - Mcfarlane/Achebe/Ngugi Critiques Of National Narratives - Davison/Fanon/Kourouma/Wicomb/Vassanji Deixis And Loss - Muecke/Fatoba/Naipaul/Warner/Chamoiseau/Glissant Deixis Rediscovered - Malouf/Forster/Ondaatje/Scott/Neidjie Conclusion: 'here fix the tablet' - Field/Grenville Bibliography Index
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Basingstoke, Hampshire,
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Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Deixis Rediscovered, Russell West-Pavlov , single work criticism (p. 184-205)
Conclusion : Here Fix the Tablet, Russell West-Pavlov , single work criticism (p. 206-211)

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Works about this Work

The Time of Biopolitics in the Settler Colony Russell West-Pavlov , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 1-19) Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture 2011; (p. 51-68)

'Kim Scott's description of the Moore River Native Settlement, also known as Mogumber, in his 1999 novel Benang, suggests implicit analogies with the mid-century concentration camps of the Holocaust. The Indigenous detainees are transported there in stock cars, they are welcomed by uniformed overseers armed with whips, they are housed in barracks with barred windows, and a punishment regime of solitary confinement and ritual humiliation operates as a means of coercion (89-94, 99-102). Elsewhere in the novel, Scott leaves us in no doubt about the force of these associations: "' They had some good ideas, those Nazis," Earn said, "but they went a bit far"' (Benang 154). The analogy between twentieth-century government control of the lives of Australian Indigenous people and biopolitics of Nazism has not gone unnoticed in other quarters. Elizabeth Povinelli describes the equation, made by the Royal Commission's Bringing Them Home report in 1994, of a century of child removal practices with cultural genocide, as 'an analogy made more compelling by the age of the Aboriginal applicants, many of whom had been taken in the early 1940s'. The impact of that equation was that 'Australians looked at themselves in a ghastly historical mirror and imagined their own Nuremberg. Would fascism be the final metaphor of Australian settler modernity?' (38).' (Author's introduction, p. 1)

The Time of Biopolitics in the Settler Colony Russell West-Pavlov , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 1-19) Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture 2011; (p. 51-68)

'Kim Scott's description of the Moore River Native Settlement, also known as Mogumber, in his 1999 novel Benang, suggests implicit analogies with the mid-century concentration camps of the Holocaust. The Indigenous detainees are transported there in stock cars, they are welcomed by uniformed overseers armed with whips, they are housed in barracks with barred windows, and a punishment regime of solitary confinement and ritual humiliation operates as a means of coercion (89-94, 99-102). Elsewhere in the novel, Scott leaves us in no doubt about the force of these associations: "' They had some good ideas, those Nazis," Earn said, "but they went a bit far"' (Benang 154). The analogy between twentieth-century government control of the lives of Australian Indigenous people and biopolitics of Nazism has not gone unnoticed in other quarters. Elizabeth Povinelli describes the equation, made by the Royal Commission's Bringing Them Home report in 1994, of a century of child removal practices with cultural genocide, as 'an analogy made more compelling by the age of the Aboriginal applicants, many of whom had been taken in the early 1940s'. The impact of that equation was that 'Australians looked at themselves in a ghastly historical mirror and imagined their own Nuremberg. Would fascism be the final metaphor of Australian settler modernity?' (38).' (Author's introduction, p. 1)

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