Michael R Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 644732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Discipline of English and Writing, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
White Writing, Indigenous Australia, and the Chronotopes of the Settler Novel
This chapter critically analyzes the work of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century white settler colonial writers who represented Indigenous characters and stories. It will examines how certain tropes persisted, from Rolf Boldrewood’s late romanticism to Eleanor Darks reconstructive modernism. It explores how novels by these writers manifest a contradictory set of ideas towards race and landscape, which it takes as emblematic of wid…
Questions of Genre, Refusal, and Cultural Adaptation in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
A number of critics have deployed the generic category of magical realism in reading Alexis Wright’s novel, Carpentaria. While accepting that the novel has something in common with this generic classification and a relation to texts and writers associated with it, this essay seeks to show the limitations inherent in reducing Carpentaria to this (or other) generic classifications. While Carpentaria enacts and explores elements of the representatio…
Otherwise than literal: Convergence and the unworking of allegory in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Tambudzai trilogy
How does the form of the Bildungsroman reflect the drive to decolonisation? If the world or postcolonial Bildungsroman is concerned with figuring the development of human personality (as Joseph Slaughter has argued), it is at one and the same time concerned with the allegorisation of national development. Yet, the political exigencies that urge on the writing of decolonisation can equally be served by realism. Perhaps the paradigmatic postcolonia…
Inquiry mentality and occasional mourning in the settler colonial carceral
The settler state is vested in the incarceration of non-white bodies. Yet, the coincidence of settler states and liberal polities also means a consistent concealment of this carceral system within forms of governmentality that represent it as a system of protection or rehabilitation. Forms of settler governmentality silence subjects of colour within and beyond the borders of the settler state even as they enclose, incarcerate and eliminate the ve…
Globalizing unsettlement: An introduction
This issue of Settler Colonial Studies marks the attempt to think the global adjacent to and, indeed, constituted in relation to questions of internal colonialism and settlement. As editors, we imp
The Fortunate Traveller” in transit: On a Walcott manuscript and the vicissitudes of North and South
In the early months of 1980, during revision of a collection that was at that time to be called North and South, Derek Walcott typed a 12 page poem. This poem, I argue, would form the kernel of one that would eventually lend its name — “The Fortunate Traveller” — to the renamed title of the whole collection. Far from the suggestive and sparse, if undeniably political, poem that would be published in that 1981 volume, this early draft reads like a…
Interventions: Race, culture, and population via the thought of A.P. Elkin
In key texts of Australian history, indigenous culture was seen as a device for delineating the boundaries of populations in such a way as to see it depicted as no longer focusing on race or physical difference. Focusing on several key moments in twentieth-century Australian indigenous policy when interventions in indigenous populations were first justified through a move from race to culture, this essay argues first that intervention into cultur…
A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature
This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers. Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Aust…
The white gaze and its artifacts: Governmental Belonging and Non-Indigenous Evaluation in a (Post)-Settler Colony
This essay takes a recent mass media event in Australia as an occasion to ask how governmental practices of looking at and evaluating racial ‘others’ move and transform between liberalism and late liberal moments. In particular, the article focuses on mass-mediated images of indigenous people and the rhetoric of settler subjects who arrogate the capacity to decide on these indigenous peoples’ mode of belonging. A series of conservative neoliberal…
Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
â How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucault 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, …
Production Values: Fordism and Formalism in North by Northwest
This essay analyzes the aesthetics of capitalist economics at the threshold of the transition from fordist to postfordist modes of production. The essay organizes this analysis around a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest . At stake is the relation between aesthetic productions which engage the economic base and thematize this engagement. In making this claim, the notion of capital's "axiomatic"--a concept by which Gi…
Inquiry mentality and occasional mourning in the settler colonial carceral
The settler state is vested in the incarceration of non-white bodies. Yet, the coincidence of settler states and liberal polities also means a consistent concealment of this carceral system within forms of governmentality that represent it as a system of protection or rehabilitation. Forms of settler governmentality silence subjects of colour within and beyond the borders of the settler state even as they enclose, incarcerate and eliminate the ve…
The white gaze and its artifacts: Governmental Belonging and Non-Indigenous Evaluation in a (Post)-Settler Colony
This essay takes a recent mass media event in Australia as an occasion to ask how governmental practices of looking at and evaluating racial ‘others’ move and transform between liberalism and late liberal moments. In particular, the article focuses on mass-mediated images of indigenous people and the rhetoric of settler subjects who arrogate the capacity to decide on these indigenous peoples’ mode of belonging. A series of conservative neoliberal…
Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
â How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucault 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, …
Otherwise than literal: Convergence and the unworking of allegory in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Tambudzai trilogy
How does the form of the Bildungsroman reflect the drive to decolonisation? If the world or postcolonial Bildungsroman is concerned with figuring the development of human personality (as Joseph Slaughter has argued), it is at one and the same time concerned with the allegorisation of national development. Yet, the political exigencies that urge on the writing of decolonisation can equally be served by realism. Perhaps the paradigmatic postcolonia…
The Fortunate Traveller” in transit: On a Walcott manuscript and the vicissitudes of North and South
In the early months of 1980, during revision of a collection that was at that time to be called North and South, Derek Walcott typed a 12 page poem. This poem, I argue, would form the kernel of one that would eventually lend its name — “The Fortunate Traveller” — to the renamed title of the whole collection. Far from the suggestive and sparse, if undeniably political, poem that would be published in that 1981 volume, this early draft reads like a…
Production Values: Fordism and Formalism in North by Northwest
This essay analyzes the aesthetics of capitalist economics at the threshold of the transition from fordist to postfordist modes of production. The essay organizes this analysis around a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest . At stake is the relation between aesthetic productions which engage the economic base and thematize this engagement. In making this claim, the notion of capital's "axiomatic"--a concept by which Gi…
Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
â How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucault 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, …
The white gaze and its artifacts: Governmental Belonging and Non-Indigenous Evaluation in a (Post)-Settler Colony
This essay takes a recent mass media event in Australia as an occasion to ask how governmental practices of looking at and evaluating racial ‘others’ move and transform between liberalism and late liberal moments. In particular, the article focuses on mass-mediated images of indigenous people and the rhetoric of settler subjects who arrogate the capacity to decide on these indigenous peoples’ mode of belonging. A series of conservative neoliberal…
A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature
This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers. Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Aust…
Globalizing unsettlement: An introduction
This issue of Settler Colonial Studies marks the attempt to think the global adjacent to and, indeed, constituted in relation to questions of internal colonialism and settlement. As editors, we imp
The Fortunate Traveller” in transit: On a Walcott manuscript and the vicissitudes of North and South
In the early months of 1980, during revision of a collection that was at that time to be called North and South, Derek Walcott typed a 12 page poem. This poem, I argue, would form the kernel of one that would eventually lend its name — “The Fortunate Traveller” — to the renamed title of the whole collection. Far from the suggestive and sparse, if undeniably political, poem that would be published in that 1981 volume, this early draft reads like a…
Interventions: Race, culture, and population via the thought of A.P. Elkin
In key texts of Australian history, indigenous culture was seen as a device for delineating the boundaries of populations in such a way as to see it depicted as no longer focusing on race or physical difference. Focusing on several key moments in twentieth-century Australian indigenous policy when interventions in indigenous populations were first justified through a move from race to culture, this essay argues first that intervention into cultur…
Inquiry mentality and occasional mourning in the settler colonial carceral
The settler state is vested in the incarceration of non-white bodies. Yet, the coincidence of settler states and liberal polities also means a consistent concealment of this carceral system within forms of governmentality that represent it as a system of protection or rehabilitation. Forms of settler governmentality silence subjects of colour within and beyond the borders of the settler state even as they enclose, incarcerate and eliminate the ve…
Otherwise than literal: Convergence and the unworking of allegory in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Tambudzai trilogy
How does the form of the Bildungsroman reflect the drive to decolonisation? If the world or postcolonial Bildungsroman is concerned with figuring the development of human personality (as Joseph Slaughter has argued), it is at one and the same time concerned with the allegorisation of national development. Yet, the political exigencies that urge on the writing of decolonisation can equally be served by realism. Perhaps the paradigmatic postcolonia…
Questions of Genre, Refusal, and Cultural Adaptation in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
A number of critics have deployed the generic category of magical realism in reading Alexis Wright’s novel, Carpentaria. While accepting that the novel has something in common with this generic classification and a relation to texts and writers associated with it, this essay seeks to show the limitations inherent in reducing Carpentaria to this (or other) generic classifications. While Carpentaria enacts and explores elements of the representatio…
White Writing, Indigenous Australia, and the Chronotopes of the Settler Novel
This chapter critically analyzes the work of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century white settler colonial writers who represented Indigenous characters and stories. It will examines how certain tropes persisted, from Rolf Boldrewood’s late romanticism to Eleanor Darks reconstructive modernism. It explores how novels by these writers manifest a contradictory set of ideas towards race and landscape, which it takes as emblematic of wid…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works)