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• W209458211 abstract "for Bruce BennettIn Tim Winton's short story, Blood and Water, from the celebrated collection Minimum of Two (1987), the narrator experiences the fear and joy of birth, associating birth with the sacred and the ordeal baby Sam Nilsam has to undergo in order to heave his first breath and connect with the outside world through flow of excrement, blood, water and suffering. Breath, Winton's most recently published novel and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, suggests some of these ideas in the depiction of boy's discovery and experience of the world of surf and surfers on the Western Australia coast. The novel encapsulates some of Winton's major concerns: adolescence and manhood, place and the environment, life in Western Australia, identity, culture and politics. It raises questions about ecophilosophical nature, issues of identity and place, all the inore as it was published in the same year as newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations, highly symbolic speech which marked the nation's desire to move forward, beyond colonization, urging Australians to build new history resulting from both an ending (the recognition of past injustices) and beginning (the desire to unite and embrace the multicultural ideal).The writing and publication of Breath is also set few years after Winton made public appearances to oppose the Ningaloo Reef resort development in Western Australia. Winton, in his campaign against developers of Australia's unique and pristine landscape, insisted on the bonds that Australians share with the environment, an umbilical bond with the land that resonates in his work as whole and which is iterated in the author's interviews and media presentations of the novel. Furthermore, Winton's Miles Franklin Award acceptance speech lays emphasis on Australia's literary success, on the decolonizing of Australian letters and the fact that artists and editors should not return to a colonial relationship, in literary terms, to London or New York, especially at time when the Australian government was reviewing territorial copyrights for market purposes. In the past ten years, Winton has clearly shown concern for Australian culture in global environment arguing that Australians had, in fact, moved on from colonialism and gotten rid of the cultural cringe. Breath encompasses such claims in the examination of the past from the perspective of an Australian, Bruce Pikelet who, as an older man and paramedic, is confronted by the challenges of the 21st century from the perspective of his own memory and past. The novel is, as Winton himself asserts, about taking risks, being young and feeling immortal, hurting oneself and hurting others without noticing.The story starts in media res with the suicide of an adolescent to which Bruce Pikelet attends. The premature death of Aaron triggers move back into the narrator's past and his experience as an adolescent growing up in Sawyer, small coastal and rural town in Western Australia. The coastal environment, central feature in Winton's work, is not only backdrop to the story but becomes, like the water, character and signifier for the protagonists and for the plot. Identity is embodied in the ocean swells along with the character's personal story and nostalgia for the past- past which, to some extent, surfaces as lost paradise- the cherished seventies Winton often alludes to in his writing. This was the period when Australia was going through radical changes, when complete independence from Britain was surfacing in political discourse, when voices were raised to support the dismantling of colonial remains.Twelve-year old Pikelet (Bruce Pike) lives on the south coast of Western Australia, in rural Sawyer, small town caught between giant karri forests and the endless ocean, on the margins of Angelus- place central to Winton's fictional territory. Place surfaces as the uncanny space that is approached within the structure of colonialism, triggering feeling of awe and an ambivalent perception about the local, suggesting that one has the experience of being in place and out of place simultaneously (54). …" @default.
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• W209458211 title "More blokes, more bloody water!: Tim Winton’s 'Breath'" @default.
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