Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-103).

Thesis (MA)--University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, 2010. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-123)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2006. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-132).

Thesis (M.A.(Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002. / "M.A. (Hons.) Communication and Media, 2002, University of Western Sydney"

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1992. / This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #054-0057. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-103).

This thesis explores the dynamics of intersubjectivity and relationality in a corpus of contemporary literature by twelve Indigenous women writers in order to trace modes of subject-formation and communication along four main axes: violence, care, language, and memory. Each chapter establishes a comparative discussion across the Tasman Sea between Indigenous texts and world theory, the local and the global, self and community. The texts range from 1984 to 2011 to cover a period of growth in publishing and international recognition of Indigenous writing. Chapter 1 examines instances of colonial oppression in the primary corpus and links them with manifestations of violence on institutional, familial, epistemic, and literary levels in Aboriginal authors Melissa Lucashenko and Tara June Winch’s debut novels Steam Pigs (1997) and Swallow the Air (2006). They address the cycle of violence and the archetypal motif of return to bring to light the life of urban Aboriginal women whose ancestral land has been lost and whose home is the western, modern Australian city. Maori short story writer Alice Tawhai’s collections Festival of Miracles (2005), Luminous (2007), and Dark Jelly (2011), on the other hand, deny the characters and reader closure, and establish an atmosphere characterised by a lack of hope and the absence of any political or personal will to effect change. Chapter 2 explores caring relationships between characters displaying symptoms that may be ascribed to various forms of intellectual and mental disability, and the relatives who look after them. I situate the texts within a postcolonial disability framework and address the figure of the informal carer in relation to her “caree.” Patricia Grace’s short story “Eben,” from her collection Small Holes in the Silence (2006), tells the life of a man with physical and intellectual disability from birth (the eponymous Eben) and his relationship with his adoptive mother Pani. The main character of Lisa Cherrington’s novel The People-Faces (2004) is a young Maori woman called Nikki whose brother Joshua is in and out of psychiatric facilities. Finally, the central characters of Vivienne Cleven’s novel Her Sister’s Eye (2002) display a wide range of congenital and acquired cognitive impairments, allowing the author to explore how the compounded trauma of racism and sexism participates in (and is influenced by) mental disability. Chapter 3 examines the materiality and corporeality of language to reveal its role in the formation of (inter)subjectivity. I argue that the use of language in Aboriginal and Maori women’s writing is anchored in the racialised, sexualised bodies of Indigenous women, as well as the locale of their ancestral land. The relationship between language, body, and country in Keri Hulme’s the bone people (1984) and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006) are analysed in relation to orality, gesture, and mapping in order to reveal their role in the formation of Indigenous selfhood. Chapter 4 explores how the reflexive practice of life-writing (including fictional auto/biography) participates in the decolonisation of the Indigenous self and community, as well as the process of individual survival and cultural survivance, through the selective remembering and forgetting of traumatic histories. Sally Morgan’s Aboriginal life-writing narrative My Place (1987), Terri Janke’s Torres Strait Islander novel Butterfly Song (2005), as well as Paula Morris and Kelly Ana Morey’s Maori texts Rangatira (2011) and Bloom (2003) address these issues in various forms. Through the interactions between memory and memoirs, I bring to light the literary processes of decolonisation of the writing/written self in the settler countries of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. This study intends to raise the profile of the authors mentioned above and to encourage the public and scholarly community to pay attention and respect to Indigenous women’s writing. One of the ambitions of this thesis is also to expose the limits and correct the shortcomings of western, postcolonial, and gender theory in relation to Indigenous women writers and the Fourth World.

Orientador: Marilena Aparecida Jorge Guedes de Camargo / Banca: Romualdo Dias / Banca: Eduardo Anibal Pellejero / Resumo: Entre a voracidade incontrolável que cavouca fissuras na escrita, as muitas vozes sobrepostas nas leituras dos autores e a euforia no espanto da infância, se faz este estudo. Entre os inquietos e incapturáveis movimentos que arremessam a escrita em fluxos que pulsam fora das linhas e as perguntas disparadas, (re)inventadas e embaralhadas na (co)mposição de espaços no cotidiano escolar. No palpitar dos interstícios em que cintilam vislumbramentos, a escrita se transmuta ao cair vertiginosamente nos labirintos cujas reconfigurações não cessam de se desfazerem, nos contágios de um olhar sem face, mudo, à espreita, no qual a pupila se expande e, ao mesmo tempo, se contrai, atraindo e expulsando as imagens para o assombro da cegueira em que irrompem visões de um olho cego, olhar cuja pupila desgovernada bailarina as confusões de uma menina festejando a desorganização dos corpos, pupila que invade todo o corpo e, na escuridão, vive as nervuras do abismo que atrai para fora, no fascínio das forças em que não há margens, não há rotas e não há rostos. No desfazimento dos rostos, o corpo se (re)inventa em cores e carícias, na feitura de cor(pos) em festa, corpos ex espelho-água-vidro, na delicadeza acqua corpo, em corpos nuvens que redobram e invertem em chão-céu o pátio da escola e tocam as distâncias intransponíveis do universo, translucidez azul de corpos que fluem em um rio sem fim, corpos que não se conformam ao esquadrinhamento das funções e localizações do organismo, não se enquadram à formatação de sujeitos e não se detém aos contornos dos papéis. Nas tentativas de recriar corpos-outros são disparados pensamentos que se acercam dos deslimites de um corpo na tensão dos fluxos intermitentes que se esvaem, deixando o rastro das intensidades que se apossam dos corpos e das escritas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Between the uncontrollable voracity that digs crevices in the written word, the many overlapping voices in the readings of the authors and the euphoria in the wonders of childhood, over which this study was done. Between the restless and untraceable movements that throw the written word in a flow that pulsates outside the lines and the discharged questions, (re)invented and mixed in the (co)mposition of spaces in everyday school life. In the beat of the interstices in which glimpses sparkle, the written word transmutes when it plummets in the labyrinths whose reconfigurations do not cease to undo themselves, in the contagions, of a look without a face, mute, lurking, in which the pupil expands and at the same time contracts, attracting and expelling the images to the fright of the blindness in which visions erupt from a blind eye, the look whose out of control pupil dances the confusions of a girl celebrating the disorganization of the bodies, the pupil that invades the whole body and, in the darkness, lives the veins of the abyss that attracts to the outside, in fascination of the forces in which there are no margins and there are no routes and there are no faces. In the undoing of the faces, the body (re)invents itself in colors and strokes, in the making of bodies partying, bodies ex mirror-water-glass, in delicateness acqua body, in cloud bodies that contort and reverse into ground-sky the courtyard of the school and they touch the unreachable distances of the universe, blue translucency of bodies that flow in an endless river, bodies that do not abide by the framework of the functions and the locations of the organism, they do not fit into the formatting of subjects and are not limited by the outline of the paper. In the attempts of recreating other-bodies are discharged thoughts that come close to the vastness of a body in tension... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

The aim of this dissertation is to study postmodern historical novels, which are labeled &ldquo / historiographic metafictions&rdquo / (Hutcheon 1989: 92), in terms of their allowing for different voices and alternative, plural histories by subverting the historical documents and events that they refer to. The study analyzes texts from feminist and postcolonial literature, Jeanette Winterson&rsquo / s The Passion and Sexing the Cherry, and Salman Rushdie&rsquo / s Midnight&rsquo / s Children and Shame as examples in which the transgression of boundaries between fact and fiction is achieved. Basing its arguments on postmodern understanding of history, the thesis puts forward that historiography not only represents past events but it also gives meaning to them, as it is a signifying system, and turns historical events into historical facts. Historiography, while constructing historical facts, singles out certain past events while omitting others, for ideological reasons. This inevitably leads to the fact that marginalized groups are denied an official voice by hegemonic ideologies. Therefore, history is regarded as monologic, representing the dominant discourse. The thesis will analyze four novels by Winterson and Rushdie as double-voiced discourses where the dominant voice of history is refracted through subversion and gives way to other voices that have been suppressed. While analyzing the novels themselves, the thesis will look for the metafictional elements of the texts, stressing self-reflexivity, non-linear narrative, and parodic intention to pinpoint the refraction and the co-existence of plural voices. As a result, historiographic metafiction is proved to be a liberating genre, for feminist and postcolonial writers, that enables other histories to be verbalized.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg, Breisgau. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-206).

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