Pioneers & settlers
Articles
- Colonial Violence and Forgotten Fiction
The focus of this essay is ‘on excavating short fiction built around representation of frontier conflict’ (33). The short fictions of colonial frontier violence ‘seem…
1 June 2009 - Rereading David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter: The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering
The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War…
1 May 2009 - Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer': The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word ‘pioneer’ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! (1913)…
1 June 2016 - Review of White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation by Liliana Zavaglia
From at least the early 1990s, when the Hawke Labor Government introduced reconciliation legislation into the Australian parliament the concept of reconciliation has attracted criticism…
28 April 2020 - Review of The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver have accomplished an impressive feat of scholarship in collecting and curating a record of settler interaction with the kangaroo from…
30 April 2021