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Writing Australian UnsettlementHomelessness

Writing Australian Unsettlement: Homelessness [In the Networked Language chapter (also called “Homelessness”) on twentieth-century poet Judith Wright, Mead quotes her poem “Habitat” (1973): “Inside the books were read and the words were scribbled” (326). Much of the writing we have considered so far was done outside. In this chapter I go beyond the limits of the literal field in order to read the texts of travellers and drovers: the diaries of Ann Williams and Sarah Davenport as they accompany their husbands in a new country, looking for grass, never themselves settled; the carved (and sometimes painted) road texts of drovers; the carved letters that appear on Wiradjuri clubs following settlement; and the text included in the drawings of an Indigenous stockman, Charlie Flannigan. These texts demonstrate unsettlement—materially, structurally, and grammatically—and thereby contest the settled model of Australian writing, which represents a settled nation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Writing Australian UnsettlementHomelessness

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
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978-1-349-58120-7
Pages
175 –194
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10.1057/9781137465412_9
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[In the Networked Language chapter (also called “Homelessness”) on twentieth-century poet Judith Wright, Mead quotes her poem “Habitat” (1973): “Inside the books were read and the words were scribbled” (326). Much of the writing we have considered so far was done outside. In this chapter I go beyond the limits of the literal field in order to read the texts of travellers and drovers: the diaries of Ann Williams and Sarah Davenport as they accompany their husbands in a new country, looking for grass, never themselves settled; the carved (and sometimes painted) road texts of drovers; the carved letters that appear on Wiradjuri clubs following settlement; and the text included in the drawings of an Indigenous stockman, Charlie Flannigan. These texts demonstrate unsettlement—materially, structurally, and grammatically—and thereby contest the settled model of Australian writing, which represents a settled nation.]

Published: Dec 22, 2015

Keywords: Literary History; Visual Text; Punctuation Mark; Full Stop; Settle Nation

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