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- Biopolitics and Eleanor Dark’s Prelude to Christopher
‘In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Dark’s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as ‘a terribly beautiful piece of work’ (128). One of Dark’s earliest critics, Franklin attributed the book’s strength to the author’s deft handling of a tragic theme…
1 June 2011 - Biopolitical Correspondences : Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
‘How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucalt called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation of a population according to the perceived insistence on norms. Indeed, biopolitics is crucially concerned…
1 June 2011