“Allowing the Glow to shine through”: Decolonial Transmediality in ART by Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella (2022)
From the arrival of the first British fleet, the notion of “frontier” in Australia had been used quite specifically, as frontiers happened to cross the Australian territory itself, whether it be geographical, cultural or political. However, art and literature can offer a space for contestation, crit...
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| Pubblicato in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes, |
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Polysèmes
2025
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | From the arrival of the first British fleet, the notion of “frontier” in Australia had been used quite specifically, as frontiers happened to cross the Australian territory itself, whether it be geographical, cultural or political. However, art and literature can offer a space for contestation, criticism but also collaboration and friendship as it exposes that frontier which becomes progressively porous so as to create pathways towards cultural dialogue. This is what happens in ART (2022) co-written by Charmaine Papertalk Green (a member of the Wajarri, Badimaya and Nhanagardi Wilunyu cultural groups from Yamaji Nation) and John Kinsella (a non-Indigenous author): this collection of poems reflects on the paintings of the late Shane Pickett (Nyoongar) and builds connections between different media—paintings and poems—but also between different cultures—Indigenous and non-Indigenous. This paper demonstrates how this collection of poetry redefines the frontier as overlapping rather than trespassing: this threefold work which combines words and images builds up an intercultural and transmedial dialogue which offers a remapping of cultural and artistic relations. The depiction of painting in poetry will be first considered, as the white page seems to become a canvas on which Country is painted throughout the collection. Then, the dialectics at work in the poems will be explored, placing the poetics and politics of visual and verbal layering at the heart of this worldmaking. Finally, the co-construction of new epistemologies will be articulated through the prism of decolonial thought, modelling a privileged pathway towards co-existence and co-creation. |
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