Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander
This article examines serial representations of Indigenous peoples in colonial periodical fiction to explore settler anxieties around colonisation and the fragile nature of settler belonging. It builds upon Elizabeth Sheehan’s work on seriality to consider the extent to which the serial (re)producti...
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ftunivsydneyojs:oai:ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au:article/15393 2023-12-24T10:16:46+01:00 Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander Galletly, Sarah 2022-12-21 application/pdf https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/15393 eng eng Association for the Study of Australian Literature https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/15393/14746 https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/15393 Copyright (c) 2022 Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022): JASAL 1833-6027 1447-8986 Periodical fiction Colonial fiction Settler colonialism Aboriginal representations Frontier violence 19th Century Serials Australian literature info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 ftunivsydneyojs 2023-11-29T12:47:34Z This article examines serial representations of Indigenous peoples in colonial periodical fiction to explore settler anxieties around colonisation and the fragile nature of settler belonging. It builds upon Elizabeth Sheehan’s work on seriality to consider the extent to which the serial (re)production of representations of Indigenous peoples in colonial texts works both to support and unsettle settler colonial subject formations and identities. Focusing mainly on the 1880 Christmas Supplement of The Queenslander, this study explores how two interdependent modes of seriality—continuity and subject formation—can be productively traced within a single issue of a periodical (Sheehan 2018). By reading across the contents of a periodical we can explore the strategies settler periodical fiction utilised to sublimate and ‘contain’ Indigenous presence while simultaneously noting where such containment fails or is unsettled by the fragile nature of settler fantasies around colonisation. The ‘operations of affect’ (Dillane 2016) at work in these texts are also discussed in this study to consider how they work to reinforce or undermine narratives of settler belonging for these texts’ colonial readership, with particular attention paid to the role of settler sorrow and ‘sympathy’ for the plight of Indigenous peoples in this era. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations The University of Sydney: Sydney eScholarship Journals online |
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This article examines serial representations of Indigenous peoples in colonial periodical fiction to explore settler anxieties around colonisation and the fragile nature of settler belonging. It builds upon Elizabeth Sheehan’s work on seriality to consider the extent to which the serial (re)production of representations of Indigenous peoples in colonial texts works both to support and unsettle settler colonial subject formations and identities. Focusing mainly on the 1880 Christmas Supplement of The Queenslander, this study explores how two interdependent modes of seriality—continuity and subject formation—can be productively traced within a single issue of a periodical (Sheehan 2018). By reading across the contents of a periodical we can explore the strategies settler periodical fiction utilised to sublimate and ‘contain’ Indigenous presence while simultaneously noting where such containment fails or is unsettled by the fragile nature of settler fantasies around colonisation. The ‘operations of affect’ (Dillane 2016) at work in these texts are also discussed in this study to consider how they work to reinforce or undermine narratives of settler belonging for these texts’ colonial readership, with particular attention paid to the role of settler sorrow and ‘sympathy’ for the plight of Indigenous peoples in this era. |
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Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander |
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Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander |
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Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander |
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Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander |
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Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander |
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serial representations of first nations peoples and settler belonging in the queenslander |
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Association for the Study of Australian Literature |
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Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022): JASAL 1833-6027 1447-8986 |
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https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/15393/14746 https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/15393 |
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