A ‘Tigress’ in the Paradise of Dissent
Kooroona critiques the foundational colonial story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20070567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Allen (0000-0001-5675-4336, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 59-82 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Changing the Victorian Subject (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Adelaide Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20851/victorian-subject-04 |
| OpenAlex | W2478204453 |
| ISBN | 9781922064745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Kooroona: a Tale of South Australia, a novel published in Britain in 1871 under the pseudonym of Iota 1 , poses a challenge to the social imaginary of colonial South Australia as the 'Paradise of Dissent'. It contests the key features of the foundational story of the South Australian colony and casts a new and critical light upon the dissenters, who had hitherto been accorded an important role in that foundational narrative. Much of the novel's critique of colonial South Australia focuses upon the white settlers' cruel treatment of the Indigenous peoples. In exploring Kooroona's challenge to the colonial foundational story, this chapter examines the circumstances of the novel's creation and the involvement of its author in struggles during the 1860s to improve the life chances of Aboriginal people who were faced by the onslaught of a violent settler community that was dominated by Methodist and other dissenters
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Dissent · Epistemology · Paradise · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |