‘Coexisting in the Outside Space in the Shade for the Afternoon’ : Poetics of Loss and Connection in Ellen Van Neerven’s Heat and Light

‘Coexisting in the Outside Space in the Shade for the Afternoon’ : Poetics of Loss and Connection in Ellen Van Neerven’s Heat and Light single work criticism

Author:agent Anne Le Guellec-Minel

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'The theoretical debate about place opposing, on the one hand, the existential necessity for a degree of permanence and continuity between person and place, and on the other, the definition of place as the chance convergence of trajectories proves useful when dealing with the way place and placelessness are imagined in contemporary Aboriginal literature. The article examines how, in Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven negotiates between a “typically Aboriginal” way of relating to place and her own generation’s worldview.' (Publication abstract)

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y Commonwealth : Essays and Studies Place and Placelessness in Postcolonial Short Fiction vol. 42 no. 2 2020 20328056 2020 periodical issue Abstract
'In postcolonial contexts marked by multiple forms of displacement and replacement, this issue examines the ambivalent value of placelessness. Another word for dislocation and dispossession, placelessness can also be approached as a force resisting the desire to lock things into place, leading to creative re-inscriptions and reinventions. Through its characteristic reticence, short fiction offers a privileged means to register fractures that take place and yet cannot necessarily be traced – events both impossible to negate and impossible to locate. Open and flexible, the short story also accommodates experiments that demonstrate the vital role of storytelling in the making of place.' (Publication abstract)

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