Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Serial Representations of First Nations Peoples and Settler Belonging in The Queenslander
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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.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon JASAL vol. 22 no. 2 December 2022 25574810 2022 periodical issue 'Welcome to issue 2 of JASAL for 2022. What a year it has been! For ASAL one of the highlights of 2022 was of course the annual conference. This year’s conference was held in July in Hobart at the University of Tasmania. The title was Coming to Terms, 30 Years On: The Mabo Legacy in Australian Writing. Presenters from around the country and beyond gathered in person and online to consider how the Mabo decision of 1992 has impacted Australian writers and writing in manifold ways. We look forward to showcasing a selection of these papers in our forthcoming conference issue in late 2023.' (Robert Clarke, University of Tasmania Victoria Kuttainen, James Cook University 2022
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