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• Title: Colonial Displacements: Another Look at Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career.
• Author : Ariel
• Release Date : January 01, 2004
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 201 KB

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In this paper, I revisit Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), a text that is now firmly entrenched in the Australian literary and feminist canons in part because of the feminist fervour and nationalist earnestness of its Australian Girl protagonist, Sybylla Melvyn. I do so in the knowledge that much critical material has been produced in response to this text to the extent that Susan Gardner has declared in mock exasperation: "Hasn't enough been said?" (22). My answer is a very serious no. This essay considers what has not been said because of its very familiarity. In short, colonial tropes of savagery, slavery and barbarity, and orientalist tropes of the eastern harem and the figure of the sultan, are figures in the text that articulate wider social anxieties over settler subjects, class orders and hegemonic gender relations. In other words, My Brilliant Career is far-fetched, not so much in its unlikeliness, but because it brings from afar remotely connected figures that found expression in the settler vernacular for purposes other than securing and superintending autochthonous populations happened on by Europeans in the course of uncertain colonial contacts. However, together with the figure of the Australian Girl, these tropes do serve as the means by which the flexible ideological work of colonial economies is represented and executed. They deviously determine to recognize and fix the identity of "others"--the Irish and Aborigines in particular--and shore up the hegemony of atrophying class structures. These figures express what is otherwise unpresentable, and my concern here is to make these tropes speak to what has hitherto been silent.

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