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Alternative title: Horizons
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... vol. 33 no. 1 Autumn 2010 of Commonwealth est. 1974 Commonwealth
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Unsettling the Colonial Linear Perspective in Kim Scott's Benang, Anne Le Guellec-Minel , single work criticism
'This paper focuses 'on how Kim Scott undertakes in his novel Benang (1999) to subvert the simplistic, destructive and ultimately self-defeating doctrine of progress championed by colonists whose eugenicist policies aimed at 'breeding out' the Aboriginal heritage. Scott shows how pioneering megalomania drove those white visionaries of the future of Australian race to aspire to being their own beginning and their own end. To counter this colonial narrative which maps out progress as a process of purification, and posits sameness as the only desirable goal on the national horizon, he deploys a circuitous and ultimately circular exploration of time and space. This narrative is informed both by the memories of his narrator's Aboriginal relatives and by the narrator's imaginative empathy with his ancestors, which eventually enables him to substitute a pattern of return and permanence for the narcissistic and misguided abstraction of linear progress.'' (p 35)
(p. 35-44)
Untitled, Geoffrey V. Davis , single work review
— Review of J. M Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual 2006 single work criticism ;
(p. 119-120)

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