Writing the nation. patrick white and the indigene. - Couverture rigide

Driesen, Cynthia Vand

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9042025166 ISBN 13 : 9789042025165

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2010

Synopsis

Book by vanden Driesen Cynthia

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The time for new approaches to Whites work is overdue. Central to the present study are Edward Saids ideas about the role of the intellectual (and the writer) of speaking truth to power, and also the importance of tracing the affiliations of a text and its embeddedness in the world. This approach is not incompatible with Jungs theory of the great artist and his capacity to answer the deep-seated psychic needs of his people. Whites work has contributed in many different ways to the writing of the nation. The spiritual needs of a young nation such as Australia must also comprehend its continual urge towards self-definition. Explored here is one important aspect of that challenge: white Australias dealings with the indigenous people of the land, tracing the significance of the Aboriginal presence in three texts selected from the oeuvre of Patrick White: Voss (1957), Riders in the Chariot (1961), and A Fringe of Leaves (1976). Each of these texts interrogates European cultures denigration of the non-European Other as embedded in the discourse of orientalism. One central merit of Whites commanding perspective is the constant close attention he pays to European hubris and to the paramount autonomy of indigenous culture. There is evidence even of a project which can be articulated as a search for the possibility of white indigeneity, the potential for the white settlers belonging within the land as does the indigene.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Cynthia vanden Driesen completed her undergraduate degree in Sri Lanka and postgraduate studies at the University of Western Australia. She has taught at universities in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Korea, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Art at Edith Cowan University. As a result of varied life-experiences with diverse cultures. her research interests in new literatures in English have developed beyond the colonialist bias of her early education. Her books include The Novels of R.K. Narayan (1986), An Anthology of Australian Literature for Korean Readers (1995), Centering the Margins: Perspectives on Literatures in English from India, Africa, the Caribbean (1995), and four co-edited volumes: Celebrations: Fifty Years of Sri Lanka-Australia Interaction (2000); New Directions in Australian Studies (2000); AsianAustralian Encounters (2002); and Diaspora: The Australasian Experience (2005).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9042025166
• ISBN 13: 9789042025165
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 207