Tony Hughes-D’aeth
Biographic Data
| ID | 230298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Hughes-D’aeth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes-D’aeth |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES-D’AETH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5745-042X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Worlds and Stories
This provocation reviews the growing interest in practices of description in literary, cultural, and environmental studies. It argues that in the environmental humanities the craft of description is essential but somewhat neglected. The multispecies worlds encountered by environmental humanities researchers necessarily have to be well described, not only objectively but also rhetorically, to engage readers. Different kinds of expertise (literary,…
Kim Scott’s Taboo and the Extimacy of Massacre
Kim Scott’s novel Taboo (2017) centres on the Kukenarup massacre, which followed the fatal spearing of John Dunn in 1880 on the ancestral lands of the Wirlomin Noongar people. Taboo traces the dynamics of silence that run through the lives of Noongar and settler descendants in the wake of massacre. What the novel underscores is that while a massacre may be located at a particular site and commemorated by public gestures (plaques, memorials and ce…
The Cybernetic Wheatbelt: John Kinsella’s Divine Comedy
John Kinsella’s poetry returns again and again to the landscape of the Western Australian wheatbelt. The wheatbelt is a region that was suddenly and violently re-made by capital in the service of cereal and fibre production during the course of the twentieth century. Despite this radical repurposing of land and the wholesale eradication of an ancient biome, the new farming zone quickly took on the halo of a natural landscape within state and nati…
The Kinsellaverse: The Writing World of John Kinsella
The extraordinary literary output of John Kinsella has thus far exceeded the capacity of criticism to deal with it. This special issue of Angelaki is an attempt to close the gap, but as the guest e
Stealing the Scene: Brian Castro's Double-Wolf
Brian Castro's novel Double-Wolf (1991) is a playful fictionalization of the life of the Russian aristocrat Sergei Pankejeff (Pankeyev, 1886-1979), known to history as the “Wolf Man.” This essay seeks to situate Castro's novel within the context of both psychoanalysis and literary postmodernism and to explore the particularities of the Wolf Man case as a narrative that problematizes the borders of fictionality. Like Pankejeff himself, Castro's Do…
Memoir and the End of the Natural World
This essay draws on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s essay “The Climate of History: Four Theses” to test the capacity of memoir to bear witness to the Anthropocene. The essay focuses on three texts that feature memoirs of childhood on the wheat frontiers in Canada and Australia—Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow (1962), Barbara York Main’s Twice Trodden Ground (1971), and Dorothy Hewett’s Wild Card (1990). As an instrument of colonization and Indigenous disposses…
Settlers of the Marsh: Settler desire and its vicissitudes
Frederick Philip Grove’s Settlers of the Marsh (1925) is a settler-colonial farm novel. Grove’s novel is an exemplary Canadian instance of a mode of fiction which attended the ‘settler revolution’ – the agricultural colonisation of temperate range lands in North and South America, Eurasia, Australasia and Southern Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth. The defining feature of this iconic form of settl…
Fiction in the age of risk
When Ulrich Beck theorised a ‘Risk Society’ (Risikogesellschaft) in 1986, the threat of global annihilation through nuclear war remained uppermost in the minds of his readership. If we skip forward three decades to the contemporary moment, the question we ask in this special issue is whether the sensation of risk has mutated or evolved in the intervening period and whether fiction exhibits evidence of such a change. While the immediate risk of th…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the …
Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer: The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word â pioneerâ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooperâ s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Catherâ s O Pioneers! (1913) and Katharine Susannah Prichardâ s The Pioneers (1915). The three novels, although moving widely across time and space, are taken as representative of the creative literature of settler colonialism. A model of reading settler colonial literature is advanced that draws on four disti…
For a long time nothing happened: Settler colonialism, deferred action and the scene of colonization in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance
That Deadman Dance (2010) is Kim Scott’s third novel and his second to win the premier literary prize in Australia, the Miles Franklin Award. Scott’s novel is set in the period of contact between European settlers and the Indigenous Noongar people on the south coast of Western Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scott’s father was Noongar and his writing is positioned in the interplay between cultures and histories. In this arti…
Salt Scars: John Kinsella’s Wheatbelt
Discusses John Kinsella's long-term poetic engagement with the fraught landscape of the West Australian Wheatbelt. 'Kinsella is an awkward, manic wheatbelt laureate, filled with passionate hatred for the agents of its destruction, railing at the very windmills that now drag the salinated water to its surface. It is possible to argue that his vehemence has marred his poetry, but that would be to accept that in every moment of our world it is reaso…
Stowaways on their father's ships: European immigration and Australian film
In the 1940s and 1950s the Department of the Interior's Film Unit made a number of films designed to win the support of a sceptical Australian public for the large-scale intake of migrants, including refugees, from Europe. Migrants, it was argued, addressed the most pressing shortage in Australia at the time, ‘manpower’. Since then, there has remained an emphasis on the vitalizing effects of immigration upon Australian society, although this has …
Compulsory screening: Border protection, migration and the Australian screen
The articles in this issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema represent the response of various Australian film scholars to questions that arose in the wake of the so-called Tampa crisis of August 2001, when Australian naval vessels took possession of 433 asylum seekers on a Norwegian cargo freighter, and a new policy was put into effect. Some of the articles tackle a number of the “aesthetic interventions” in the ethico-political debates relating…
Do you want to know more? Narrative in Australian multimedia
Pretty as a picture: Australia and the imperial picturesque
(1997). Pretty as a picture: Australia and the imperial picturesque. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Fatal shores, pp. 99-107
Salt Scars: John Kinsella’s Wheatbelt
Discusses John Kinsella's long-term poetic engagement with the fraught landscape of the West Australian Wheatbelt. 'Kinsella is an awkward, manic wheatbelt laureate, filled with passionate hatred for the agents of its destruction, railing at the very windmills that now drag the salinated water to its surface. It is possible to argue that his vehemence has marred his poetry, but that would be to accept that in every moment of our world it is reaso…
Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer: The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word â pioneerâ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooperâ s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Catherâ s O Pioneers! (1913) and Katharine Susannah Prichardâ s The Pioneers (1915). The three novels, although moving widely across time and space, are taken as representative of the creative literature of settler colonialism. A model of reading settler colonial literature is advanced that draws on four disti…
Pretty as a picture: Australia and the imperial picturesque
(1997). Pretty as a picture: Australia and the imperial picturesque. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Fatal shores, pp. 99-107
Do you want to know more? Narrative in Australian multimedia
Stowaways on their father's ships: European immigration and Australian film
In the 1940s and 1950s the Department of the Interior's Film Unit made a number of films designed to win the support of a sceptical Australian public for the large-scale intake of migrants, including refugees, from Europe. Migrants, it was argued, addressed the most pressing shortage in Australia at the time, ‘manpower’. Since then, there has remained an emphasis on the vitalizing effects of immigration upon Australian society, although this has …
Compulsory screening: Border protection, migration and the Australian screen
The articles in this issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema represent the response of various Australian film scholars to questions that arose in the wake of the so-called Tampa crisis of August 2001, when Australian naval vessels took possession of 433 asylum seekers on a Norwegian cargo freighter, and a new policy was put into effect. Some of the articles tackle a number of the “aesthetic interventions” in the ethico-political debates relating…
Salt Scars: John Kinsella’s Wheatbelt
Discusses John Kinsella's long-term poetic engagement with the fraught landscape of the West Australian Wheatbelt. 'Kinsella is an awkward, manic wheatbelt laureate, filled with passionate hatred for the agents of its destruction, railing at the very windmills that now drag the salinated water to its surface. It is possible to argue that his vehemence has marred his poetry, but that would be to accept that in every moment of our world it is reaso…
For a long time nothing happened: Settler colonialism, deferred action and the scene of colonization in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance
That Deadman Dance (2010) is Kim Scott’s third novel and his second to win the premier literary prize in Australia, the Miles Franklin Award. Scott’s novel is set in the period of contact between European settlers and the Indigenous Noongar people on the south coast of Western Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scott’s father was Noongar and his writing is positioned in the interplay between cultures and histories. In this arti…
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the …
Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer: The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word â pioneerâ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooperâ s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Catherâ s O Pioneers! (1913) and Katharine Susannah Prichardâ s The Pioneers (1915). The three novels, although moving widely across time and space, are taken as representative of the creative literature of settler colonialism. A model of reading settler colonial literature is advanced that draws on four disti…
Fiction in the age of risk
When Ulrich Beck theorised a ‘Risk Society’ (Risikogesellschaft) in 1986, the threat of global annihilation through nuclear war remained uppermost in the minds of his readership. If we skip forward three decades to the contemporary moment, the question we ask in this special issue is whether the sensation of risk has mutated or evolved in the intervening period and whether fiction exhibits evidence of such a change. While the immediate risk of th…
Settlers of the Marsh: Settler desire and its vicissitudes
Frederick Philip Grove’s Settlers of the Marsh (1925) is a settler-colonial farm novel. Grove’s novel is an exemplary Canadian instance of a mode of fiction which attended the ‘settler revolution’ – the agricultural colonisation of temperate range lands in North and South America, Eurasia, Australasia and Southern Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth. The defining feature of this iconic form of settl…
Stealing the Scene: Brian Castro's Double-Wolf
Brian Castro's novel Double-Wolf (1991) is a playful fictionalization of the life of the Russian aristocrat Sergei Pankejeff (Pankeyev, 1886-1979), known to history as the “Wolf Man.” This essay seeks to situate Castro's novel within the context of both psychoanalysis and literary postmodernism and to explore the particularities of the Wolf Man case as a narrative that problematizes the borders of fictionality. Like Pankejeff himself, Castro's Do…
Memoir and the End of the Natural World
This essay draws on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s essay “The Climate of History: Four Theses” to test the capacity of memoir to bear witness to the Anthropocene. The essay focuses on three texts that feature memoirs of childhood on the wheat frontiers in Canada and Australia—Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow (1962), Barbara York Main’s Twice Trodden Ground (1971), and Dorothy Hewett’s Wild Card (1990). As an instrument of colonization and Indigenous disposses…
Kim Scott’s Taboo and the Extimacy of Massacre
Kim Scott’s novel Taboo (2017) centres on the Kukenarup massacre, which followed the fatal spearing of John Dunn in 1880 on the ancestral lands of the Wirlomin Noongar people. Taboo traces the dynamics of silence that run through the lives of Noongar and settler descendants in the wake of massacre. What the novel underscores is that while a massacre may be located at a particular site and commemorated by public gestures (plaques, memorials and ce…
The Cybernetic Wheatbelt: John Kinsella’s Divine Comedy
John Kinsella’s poetry returns again and again to the landscape of the Western Australian wheatbelt. The wheatbelt is a region that was suddenly and violently re-made by capital in the service of cereal and fibre production during the course of the twentieth century. Despite this radical repurposing of land and the wholesale eradication of an ancient biome, the new farming zone quickly took on the halo of a natural landscape within state and nati…
The Kinsellaverse: The Writing World of John Kinsella
The extraordinary literary output of John Kinsella has thus far exceeded the capacity of criticism to deal with it. This special issue of Angelaki is an attempt to close the gap, but as the guest e
Worlds and Stories
This provocation reviews the growing interest in practices of description in literary, cultural, and environmental studies. It argues that in the environmental humanities the craft of description is essential but somewhat neglected. The multispecies worlds encountered by environmental humanities researchers necessarily have to be well described, not only objectively but also rhetorically, to engage readers. Different kinds of expertise (literary,…
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