Discursive Manipulations of Names and Naming in Kate Grenville’s The Secret River
Although Kate Grenville’s Colonial Trilogy frequently signals the author’s awareness both of recent Australian historiography and of postcolonial theorising on colonial rhetoric and colonising practices, the author seems oblivious of certain reflexes (both psychological and ideological) that infiltr...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_5263 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.5263 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.5263 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/5263 2021-07-20T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dsz8 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Discursive Manipulations of Names and Naming in Kate Grenville’s The Secret River Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila Although Kate Grenville’s Colonial Trilogy frequently signals the author’s awareness both of recent Australian historiography and of postcolonial theorising on colonial rhetoric and colonising practices, the author seems oblivious of certain reflexes (both psychological and ideological) that infiltrate her writing, subverting her declared intention of telling the truth about Australia’s frontier history. By analysing the function of names and naming in The Secret River, I show how Grenville’s narrative works both to disguise the fiercely predatory logic that drives colonisation and to normalise the process of Aboriginal dispossession. |
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Although Kate Grenville’s Colonial Trilogy frequently signals the author’s awareness both of recent Australian historiography and of postcolonial theorising on colonial rhetoric and colonising practices, the author seems oblivious of certain reflexes (both psychological and ideological) that infiltrate her writing, subverting her declared intention of telling the truth about Australia’s frontier history. By analysing the function of names and naming in The Secret River, I show how Grenville’s narrative works both to disguise the fiercely predatory logic that drives colonisation and to normalise the process of Aboriginal dispossession. |
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