Reframing ‘Inky’ Stephensen's place in Australian cultural history
| Autor: | Dan Tout |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Settler Colonial Studies. 7:72-93 |
| ISSN: | 1838-0743 2201-473X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/2201473x.2016.1149964 |
| Popis: | This article examines the existing literature surrounding Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901–1965). ‘Inky’ to his friends, Stephensen was a prominent yet complex and ostensibly contradictory figure of the Australian literary, cultural and political landscape of the 1930s and early 1940s. In an attempt to overcome what this article presents as the persistent sense of analytical obscurity and uncertainty surrounding both Stephensen and his most famous essay, The Foundations of Culture in Australia, the following analysis reveals that, taken together, attempts to explicate this perplexing figure present an inconsistent and often conflictual picture of Stephensen. In particular, two central ambiguities in the existing historiography are highlighted, the first revolving around divergent interpretations of Stephensen as either radical or reactionary in intent, the second hinging on competing conceptions of Stephensen as either a cultural cringer or an anti-imperial chauvinist in sentiment. The article conc... |
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