The Ayers Rock Experience: Reading to Recuperate the Lost in David Malouf’s ‘Mrs Porter and the Rock’
Abstract
Discusses Romantic transcendentalism in Malouf's writing, arguing that 'Malouf's sometimes ironic Romanticism combines with his postcolonialism to question Enlightenment and colonialist assumptions. His postcolonial interest in Romanticism thus metonymically enacts white identity transformed, an aesthetic which is quietly yet inherently political.'
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Published 1 May 2011 in Volume 26 No. 1. Subjects: Aboriginal secret & sacred sites, Consumerism, Romanticism, Transcendence, David Malouf.
Cite as: Grogan, Bridget. ‘The Ayers Rock Experience: Reading to Recuperate the Lost in David Malouf’s ‘Mrs Porter and the Rock’.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2011, doi: 10.20314/als.2e0572dbab.