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Type: | Book chapter |
Title: | "Washed clean": The forgotten journeys of future maritime arrivals in J.M. Coetzee's Estralia |
Author: | Rutherford, J. |
Citation: | Migration By Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion, and Survival, 2016 / Mannik, L. (ed./s), Ch.5, pp.101-115 |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publisher Place: | New York, USA |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Series/Report no.: | Studies in Forced Migration; 35 |
ISBN: | 1785331019 9781785331015 |
Editor: | Mannik, L. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jennifer Rutherford |
Abstract: | Holing captures the inner logic in play in new policies of detention, deterrence, push-back and excision deployed by the Australian Government against asylum seekers arriving on Australian shores by boat. Beyond a pragmatic attempt to limit the economic costs of settlement and rhetorical attempts to garner populist nationalist support, such strategies reveal a will to hole. J.M. Coetzee’s most recent Australian novel, The Childhood of Jesus, provides a powerful allegory for thinking about holing in Australia. The Childhood of Jesus is not “about” Australia’s infamous refugee policy, nor is it simply a novel about Australia; there is no simple key to this allegory. But as a syncretic, polysemous and extended metaphor, the novel creates a cosmos of being in absentia, a place riddled with holes in which we find, amongst other lost possibilities of being, the maritime refugees of today, stateless, faceless, and “washed clean” of their past. |
Rights: | ©2016 Lynda Mannik. All rights reserved. |
Published version: | http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MannikMigration |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 English publications |
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