Tim Winton and the ethics of the neighbour here and now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter D Mathews (0000-0001-9228-0318) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 642-655 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2019.1610029 |
| OpenAlex | W2944927427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article explores the ethical concept of the neighbour, an idea central to the fiction of Tim Winton. The first part focuses on how the ghosts in Cloudstreet symbolize an Australian culture haunted by the injustices of colonization, especially the dispossession of the Indigenous people. The second part looks at the paradox of being commanded to love one’s neighbour, comparing an early story, “Neighbours”, to Winton’s recent novel Eyrie. The third part looks at Winton’s ethics of neighbourliness in light of recent critical reworkings of this concept by Slavoj Žižek and Kenneth Reinhard. Central to this section is the importance of time and place to the ethics of the neighbour, in particular the repeated insistence by both Winton and his critics that, rather than focusing on the past, we should acknowledge the neighbour who stands before us in the here and now
Aesthetics · Art · Indigenous · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Homelessness and Social Issues · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |