“Kin-fused” revenge : Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife

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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17449855.2022.2051867?needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17449855.2022.2051867?needAccess=true</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2051867" target="_blank" >10.1080/17449855.2022.2051867</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“Kin-fused” revenge : Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife
Original language description
One of the many rewritings of Australian Henry Lawson’s iconic 1892 short story “The Drover’s Wife” is the 2016 play The Drover’s Wife, written by Aboriginal actor, writer, and director Leah Purcell. Purcell’s rewriting evidences a much more significant presence of Indigeneity. The play not only introduces Yadaka, an Aboriginal fugitive, as a key character, but the drover’s wife herself is revealed to have Indigenous origins. This powerful twist offers several implications: a tour de force of frontier violence with disturbing and haunting images of racism, rape, lynching, and murder, the play confronts the foundations of the literary canon and of settler belonging, providing an alternative to both. Borrowing Fiona Probyn-Rapsey’s term “kin-fused”, this close reading of the play’s text argues that its resolution implies a critique of Indigenous–settler reconciliation, pointing to a lingering desire to redress colonial violence, desire embodied in the play by a “kin-fused” revenge.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-11234S" target="_blank" >GA19-11234S: Australian Memoirs of Settler Belonging</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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