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 (Unpublished)
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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
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            Creators:
              Wilson, J. 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
            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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