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Dedication: For dearest Suss
We shared this project as we've shared everything else
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Biopolitical Correspondences : Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 20-42) 'How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucalt called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation of a population according to the perceived insistence on norms. Indeed, biopolitics is crucially concerned with what is perceptible at the macroscopic level of an entire population - often rendering its operations blind to more singular, small, identitarian, or even communitarian representations and imaginaries. Unlike the diffuse, microscopic, governmental mechanisms of surveillance that identify the need for disciplinary interventions, biopolitics concerns itself with the regularisation of societies on a large scale, notably through demography. As Ann Laura Stoler has put it, Foucault's identification of these two forms of power, 'the disciplining of individual bodies...and the regularization of life processes of aggregate human populations' has led to much productive work in the postcolonialist critique of 'the discursive management of the sexual practices of the colonized', and the resultant 'colonial order of things' (4).' (Author's introduction, 20)
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Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 21 no. 3 2004; (p. 398-399)
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Anatomy of a Political Novelist
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 175 2004; (p. 100-101)
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Romancer and Anatomist
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 254 2003; (p. 57)
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , July no. 17 2003;
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism
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Charting One of Our Strangest Literary Careers
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 June 2003; (p. 2a)
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Mapping Herbert's Bumpy Road
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 July 2003; (p. 16)
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Off the Shelf
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 August 2003; (p. 24)
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , July no. 17 2003;
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Romancer and Anatomist
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 254 2003; (p. 57)
— Review of A Long and Winding Road : Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey 2003 single work criticism -
Biopolitical Correspondences : Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 20-42) 'How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucalt called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation of a population according to the perceived insistence on norms. Indeed, biopolitics is crucially concerned with what is perceptible at the macroscopic level of an entire population - often rendering its operations blind to more singular, small, identitarian, or even communitarian representations and imaginaries. Unlike the diffuse, microscopic, governmental mechanisms of surveillance that identify the need for disciplinary interventions, biopolitics concerns itself with the regularisation of societies on a large scale, notably through demography. As Ann Laura Stoler has put it, Foucault's identification of these two forms of power, 'the disciplining of individual bodies...and the regularization of life processes of aggregate human populations' has led to much productive work in the postcolonialist critique of 'the discursive management of the sexual practices of the colonized', and the resultant 'colonial order of things' (4).' (Author's introduction, 20)
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Subjects:
- Poor Fellow My Country 1975 single work novel
- Capricornia : A Novel 1938 single work novel
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