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“The Waste of the Empire” : Neocolonialism and Environmental Justice in Merlinda Bobis’s “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer”
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 55 no. 2 2019; (p. 209-222) 'This article interrogates the politics of “waste” in both the environmental and the socio-economic senses of the word, with a special attention to the outsourcing of toxicity and the “wastification” of disposable, residual bodies. Both toxic discourse, as explored by Lawrence Buell and Cynthia Deitering, and environmental justice, in particular Rob Nixon’s elucidation of the representational challenges posed by slow violence, contribute to a specific approach, Waste Theory, used here to analyse “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer”, a 1999 short story by Filipino/Australian writer Merlinda Bobis, in which she grapples with the dirty politics of waste. This narrative constitutes a neocolonial allegory particularly amenable to Waste Theory, in that it allows critics to tease out the ways in which toxic environments act in conjunction and collusion with the toxic configurations of power that transform human beings into literal or figurative waste.'(Publication abstract)
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Stories That Smack of Innovation
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 January 1998; (p. 10)
— Review of Twins 1997 selected work short story ; Picador New Writing 4 1997 anthology short story poetry extract prose ; The Long Siesta 1997 single work short story ; Black Dots in Cages 1997 single work short story ; Bring Me the Head of Dora Kent 1997 single work short story ; Salaryman 1997 single work short story ; Away from the Capital 1997 single work short story
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Stories That Smack of Innovation
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 January 1998; (p. 10)
— Review of Twins 1997 selected work short story ; Picador New Writing 4 1997 anthology short story poetry extract prose ; The Long Siesta 1997 single work short story ; Black Dots in Cages 1997 single work short story ; Bring Me the Head of Dora Kent 1997 single work short story ; Salaryman 1997 single work short story ; Away from the Capital 1997 single work short story -
“The Waste of the Empire” : Neocolonialism and Environmental Justice in Merlinda Bobis’s “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer”
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 55 no. 2 2019; (p. 209-222) 'This article interrogates the politics of “waste” in both the environmental and the socio-economic senses of the word, with a special attention to the outsourcing of toxicity and the “wastification” of disposable, residual bodies. Both toxic discourse, as explored by Lawrence Buell and Cynthia Deitering, and environmental justice, in particular Rob Nixon’s elucidation of the representational challenges posed by slow violence, contribute to a specific approach, Waste Theory, used here to analyse “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer”, a 1999 short story by Filipino/Australian writer Merlinda Bobis, in which she grapples with the dirty politics of waste. This narrative constitutes a neocolonial allegory particularly amenable to Waste Theory, in that it allows critics to tease out the ways in which toxic environments act in conjunction and collusion with the toxic configurations of power that transform human beings into literal or figurative waste.'(Publication abstract)
