Jennifer Lawn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Lawn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawn |
| SIGNATURE | LAWN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7028-1096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Selling Out in the High Country
Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, Wellington: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023, 423 pp Among the many pleasures of reading Eleanor Catton’s idiosyncratic fiction is her sheer inventiveness, the sense that she likes to set herself difficult or even improbable writing challenges. Her works hover on the boundaries of established genres—coming of age in her first novel The Rehearsal (2008), crime fiction in The Luminaries (2013)—while refusing to ab…
The anti-Antigone
This article places Carl Nixon’s novel Settlers’ Creek (2010) alongside Sophocles’ Antigone as the springboard for an inquiry into the dynamic relationship between kinship bonds and state legitimacy in a settler-colonial context. Loosely based on a high-profile legal case in Aotearoa New Zealand regarding funerary practices, the novel highlights tensions between settler and indigenous constructions of law. Settlers’ Creek and Antigone share a cen…
Precarity
In this essay I analyse fiction by New Zealand authors John A. Lee and Paula Morris to investigate the ways in which literary form might articulate “the precarious” – as an ethical philosophy most closely associated with the work of Judith Butler – with “the precariat” as a (re)emerging social phenomenon. Butler's concept of precarious life proceeds from the idea that apprehension of co-vulnerability in oneself and others can provide the basis fo…
Introduction
This introductory essay situates the contributors’ articles in relation to the over-arching questions for this special issue: how has neoliberalism impacted on culture, and how is neoliberalism thought from cultural perspectives; or, what happens to the idea of culture under neoliberalism? We acknowledge extensive disagreement among commentators as to what neoliberalism is, its coherence as a concept, and its duration. We trace the different valu…
The Frame function
Neoliberalism and the politics of indigenous community in the fiction of Alan Duff and Witi Ihimaera
This article contextualises the discourse of self-determination in contemporary Māori fiction within the international pressures of neoliberal economic doctrine. Indigenous self-determination movements and neoliberalism are congruent to the extent that they advance the value of autonomy, achieved by devolving state powers to smaller, more responsive, and supposedly more accountable communities of interest. Neoliberalism is therefore misconstrued …
Badlands and Borderlands
The essay examines and extends upon the trope of the borderlands as a conceptual geography employed by postcolonial theory, concentrating on the recent fiction of 'two Maori writers, Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai, who foreground the material conditions of borderland existence, albeit for very different political purposes
Settler Society and Postcolonial Apologies in Australia and New Zealand
From the 1990s onward, collective apologies for historical injustices proliferated in political arenas across the globe, usually in response to intense activism by wronged parties or their descendants. Addressing this turn to symbolic reconciliation, I ask how such apologies might realign relationships between the Crown, indigenous communities, and settler society, with particular focus on apologies for the stolen generations of Aboriginal and To…
Introduction
This introductory essay situates the contributors’ articles in relation to the over-arching questions for this special issue: how has neoliberalism impacted on culture, and how is neoliberalism thought from cultural perspectives; or, what happens to the idea of culture under neoliberalism? We acknowledge extensive disagreement among commentators as to what neoliberalism is, its coherence as a concept, and its duration. We trace the different valu…
The Frame function
The anti-Antigone
This article places Carl Nixon’s novel Settlers’ Creek (2010) alongside Sophocles’ Antigone as the springboard for an inquiry into the dynamic relationship between kinship bonds and state legitimacy in a settler-colonial context. Loosely based on a high-profile legal case in Aotearoa New Zealand regarding funerary practices, the novel highlights tensions between settler and indigenous constructions of law. Settlers’ Creek and Antigone share a cen…
Settler Society and Postcolonial Apologies in Australia and New Zealand
From the 1990s onward, collective apologies for historical injustices proliferated in political arenas across the globe, usually in response to intense activism by wronged parties or their descendants. Addressing this turn to symbolic reconciliation, I ask how such apologies might realign relationships between the Crown, indigenous communities, and settler society, with particular focus on apologies for the stolen generations of Aboriginal and To…
Settler Society and Postcolonial Apologies in Australia and New Zealand
From the 1990s onward, collective apologies for historical injustices proliferated in political arenas across the globe, usually in response to intense activism by wronged parties or their descendants. Addressing this turn to symbolic reconciliation, I ask how such apologies might realign relationships between the Crown, indigenous communities, and settler society, with particular focus on apologies for the stolen generations of Aboriginal and To…
Badlands and Borderlands
The essay examines and extends upon the trope of the borderlands as a conceptual geography employed by postcolonial theory, concentrating on the recent fiction of 'two Maori writers, Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai, who foreground the material conditions of borderland existence, albeit for very different political purposes
Neoliberalism and the politics of indigenous community in the fiction of Alan Duff and Witi Ihimaera
This article contextualises the discourse of self-determination in contemporary Māori fiction within the international pressures of neoliberal economic doctrine. Indigenous self-determination movements and neoliberalism are congruent to the extent that they advance the value of autonomy, achieved by devolving state powers to smaller, more responsive, and supposedly more accountable communities of interest. Neoliberalism is therefore misconstrued …
The Frame function
Introduction
This introductory essay situates the contributors’ articles in relation to the over-arching questions for this special issue: how has neoliberalism impacted on culture, and how is neoliberalism thought from cultural perspectives; or, what happens to the idea of culture under neoliberalism? We acknowledge extensive disagreement among commentators as to what neoliberalism is, its coherence as a concept, and its duration. We trace the different valu…
Precarity
In this essay I analyse fiction by New Zealand authors John A. Lee and Paula Morris to investigate the ways in which literary form might articulate “the precarious” – as an ethical philosophy most closely associated with the work of Judith Butler – with “the precariat” as a (re)emerging social phenomenon. Butler's concept of precarious life proceeds from the idea that apprehension of co-vulnerability in oneself and others can provide the basis fo…
The anti-Antigone
This article places Carl Nixon’s novel Settlers’ Creek (2010) alongside Sophocles’ Antigone as the springboard for an inquiry into the dynamic relationship between kinship bonds and state legitimacy in a settler-colonial context. Loosely based on a high-profile legal case in Aotearoa New Zealand regarding funerary practices, the novel highlights tensions between settler and indigenous constructions of law. Settlers’ Creek and Antigone share a cen…
Selling Out in the High Country
Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, Wellington: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023, 423 pp Among the many pleasures of reading Eleanor Catton’s idiosyncratic fiction is her sheer inventiveness, the sense that she likes to set herself difficult or even improbable writing challenges. Her works hover on the boundaries of established genres—coming of age in her first novel The Rehearsal (2008), crime fiction in The Luminaries (2013)—while refusing to ab…
Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aotearoa (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Social science (3 works)