I Looked Out and Nature Was Gone
Language, Lyric, and Alterity in John Kinsella’sgraphology Poems 1995-2015
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Disney (0000-0002-3380-8538, Sogang University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 48-59 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2018.1513198 |
| OpenAlex | W2969148022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In the nearly 800 pages that comprise the three volumes of his Graphology Poems 1995–2015 (Five Islands P, 2016), John Kinsella demonstrates an exemplary moral anger registering iterations of colonial “omni-speak” as unethical (1: 93). This paper reads Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (Stanford UP, 1998) by way of apprehending the rhetorical substrata underpinning discourses of Australia as not just determining a sovereign colonial space; in a place where “history is absurdity [...] history is overlay” (Graphology Poems 1: 158), Kinsella shows how indigenous and non-colonial others are consistently cast as extra-juridical and merely sub-human. These Graphology Poems not only anathemise and hex historical falsehoods of nation: Kinsella dares sound out the bullshit, and his iconoclastic language games refuse outright to acquiesce to the epistemically violent nullifications of antipodean identity
Absurdity · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Indigenous · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Postcolonial literature · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Sovereignty · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |