Place, Placelessness and David Malouf’s Meditation on the Dual Meaning of Possession: Is Haunting or Being Haunted Only about Expiation of Colonial Sins?
| Autor: | Christine Vandamme |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut des Langues et Cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie (ILCEA4), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Dead child
narrative voice and point of view History [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Sense of place Hauntology Colonialism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine Meditation Dream David Malouf hauntology ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS Water Science and Technology media_common Literature business.industry 06 humanities and the arts Possession (law) [SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history 060202 literary studies spectrality 0602 languages and literature lost child motif General Earth and Planetary Sciences business |
| Zdroj: | Commonwealth Essays and Studies Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Société d'étude des pays du Commonwealth, 2020, 42 (2), ⟨10.4000/ces.2418⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0395-6989 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/ces.2418⟩ |
| Popis: | This article deals with the spectrality of the narrative voice in “Blacksoil Country,” a short story from David Malouf’s collection Dream Stuff (2000) in which a dead child artificially addresses the reader, as if from beyond the grave. The interrelated issues of settlement, place and placelessness are tackled through the analysis of Malouf’s choice to focus on the lost child trope commonly found in Australian settler literature, and the resulting haunted nature of the disembodied narrative voice speaking from an unplaceable source. The effects of this narrative strategy include ventriloquisation, conflation and destabilisation. |
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