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Writing Australian UnsettlementConclusion

Writing Australian Unsettlement: Conclusion [In an essay on “the creolization of the psychoanalytic concept of trauma,” Pheng Cheah writes, “For at least two decades, it has been the task of postcolonial theory, loosely termed, to remind critical theory of its Eurocentric limits and to point to different forms of theorization that may arise in colonial and postcolonial space” (83–84). Australian literature cannot avoid the European inheritance that comes with the English language (and the Roman alphabet), but it is already a mixed one. Writing in the context of the literary colonization of Peru, José Carlos Mariategui cites nineteenth-century Italian critic Francesco de Sanctis, who states: The idea of a national literature is an illusion… The imagination and style now known as orientalism are not particularly of the Orient but of all the East and of all barbaric, primitive literatures. Greek poetry has Asiatic elements, Latin poetry has Greek, and Italian poetry has both Greek and Latin. (188)] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Writing Australian UnsettlementConclusion

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
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978-1-349-58120-7
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195 –197
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10.1057/9781137465412_10
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[In an essay on “the creolization of the psychoanalytic concept of trauma,” Pheng Cheah writes, “For at least two decades, it has been the task of postcolonial theory, loosely termed, to remind critical theory of its Eurocentric limits and to point to different forms of theorization that may arise in colonial and postcolonial space” (83–84). Australian literature cannot avoid the European inheritance that comes with the English language (and the Roman alphabet), but it is already a mixed one. Writing in the context of the literary colonization of Peru, José Carlos Mariategui cites nineteenth-century Italian critic Francesco de Sanctis, who states: The idea of a national literature is an illusion… The imagination and style now known as orientalism are not particularly of the Orient but of all the East and of all barbaric, primitive literatures. Greek poetry has Asiatic elements, Latin poetry has Greek, and Italian poetry has both Greek and Latin. (188)]

Published: Dec 22, 2015

Keywords: Critical Theory; National Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Settle Phenomenon; Asiatic Element

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