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Space and its Dialectics in Peter Carey’s Illywhacker: A Postmodern Reading 彼得·凯里《伊莱whacker》中的空间及其辩证法:一种后现代解读

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2021.v01.n01.002

{"title":"Space and its Dialectics in Peter Carey’s Illywhacker: A Postmodern Reading","authors":"","doi":"10.53034/transcript.2021.v01.n01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53034/transcript.2021.v01.n01.002","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of “space” has acquired a central position in postmodern geography. Its re-emergence in postmodern geography aptly demonstrates the crucial importance of the physical places in moulding human experiences, identity, culture, actions, and existence as well. Space in postmodern geography incorporates into the seminal aspects of the inseparable connection of place with human experiences, existence, and identity as well. These issues of space and place have great importance in the context of the nation of Australia due to the appropriation/misappropriation of the land and the consequent unsettling. All these have become areas of investigation in Australian literature, and here in this context the name of Peter Carey, an eminent Australian novelist in English, poses significance. Carey in his novels has dexterously portrayed the spatial issues in Australia and the continued contestations over the land between the British Whites and the Aboriginals. This article intends to critically appropriate the notion of space and its dialectics in the Australian contexts from a postmodern perspective based on a reading of Carey’s one of the widely read novels namely Illywhacker. The article digs into the continuing spatial dilemma, politics, and contestations in the nation of Australia through illustrations from Illywhacker and eventually demystifies its ramifications and wide impacts.","PeriodicalId":225089,"journal":{"name":"Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124124684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From the Anthropause to the Pandemic Turn: Emerging Directions in the Environmental Humanities in the Covid-19 Era 从人类暂停到大流行转向:新冠肺炎时代环境人文学科的新兴方向

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-20 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2021.v01.i01.001

Johnston Ryan

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John Keats and the Sensevil Sublime 约翰·济慈和崇高的感官

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2022.v02.n02.003

Shouvik Narayan Hore

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Invasive Memory and W G Sebald’s The Emigrants 侵入性记忆和W·G·西博尔德的《移民

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2022.v02.n01.002

C. Panda

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Rescuing the Repressed: Emancipatory Possibilities of “Everyday” in Anjum Hasan’s Street on the Hill 拯救被压抑者:安杨·哈桑的《山上的街》中“日常”的解放可能性

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2022.v02.n02.004

Nabanita Paul

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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama – Book Review 《我们用身体测量地球》，次仁扬赞喇嘛著

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2023.v03.n01.005

Paddaja Roy

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Human Dominance or Human Vulnerability?: Reviewing Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain: a Fable for Our Times 人类的优势还是人类的脆弱?:回顾阿米塔夫·高希的《活着的山:我们时代的寓言》

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2022.v02.n02.005

Somasree Sarkar

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Deviance and Empire: Major Anthony G. McCall’s Lushai Chrysalis 越轨与帝国:安东尼·g·麦考尔少校的鹿海蛹

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2023.v03.n01.004

Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi

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The Oriental Annual[s]: Colonial Representations of Indian life and Culture 东方年鉴[5]:印第安人生活和文化的殖民代表

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2022.v02.n02.001

Ayusman Chakraborty

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Meitei Umanglaiharaoba and the Order of Nature 美泰·乌曼格拉·哈拉奥巴与自然法则

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.53034/transcript.2022.v02.n01.003

Kshetrimayum Premchandra

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