Wilson, J. M. (2011) Narrating identities in transit: a poetics of subjectivity. Invited Presentation presented to: Future Postcolonialisms: Comparing, Converting, Queering, Greening / Le postcolonial-en-devenir, Salle Dusanne, Ecole Nationale Supérieure, Paris, 27-28 May 2011. (Unpublished)
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Presentation) |
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| Abstract: | Women traveller writers from the white settler colonies of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand who move between colonial peripheries and metropolitan centres, position themselves outside national boundaries, obliquely representing their relationship to home and host societies. For these cosmopolitans such side stepping of national categories, fosters a sense of belonging in words and fictive spaces. In being accountable to more than one concept of home, more likely to be a ‘cultural traveller or an extraterritorial’ than a national (Elleke Boehmer Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, OUP, 2005, p. 227) the traveller writer offers complex constructions of literary identity, inflected by overlocking and intersecting images of self and other, home and abroad, authenticity and authority. This paper will refer to New Zealand writing of the 20th century as a case study. Focussing on the work of Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame and Fleur Adcock, it will argue that their representations of journeys and travel constitute a translational ‘third’ space between colony and host society, a place where identity structures can be undone and remade. As cultural agents, they show in their work a continuing renegotiation of the relationship between the white settler society and the metropolitan homeland |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | New Zealand, Migration, Women writers, Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Robin Hyde, Fleur Adcock, the transnation |
| Subjects: |
P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR9080 Postcolonial literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR8309 English literature: Provincial, local, etc. > PR9639.3 New Zealand literature |
| Creators: | Wilson, Janet M |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing |
| Date: | 28 May 2011 |
| Date Type: | Presentation |
| Event Title: | Future Postcolonialisms: Comparing, Converting, Queering, Greening / Le postcolonial-en-devenir |
| Event Dates: | 27-28 May 2011 |
| Event Location: | Salle Dusanne, Ecole Nationale Supérieure, Paris |
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
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| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/5230 |
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