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• W2988805227 abstract "In this paper, I revisit Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), a text that is now firmly entrenched in Australian literary and feminist canons in part because of feminist fervour and nationalist earnestness of its Australian Girl protagonist, Sybylla Melvyn. I do so in knowledge that much critical material has been produced in response to this text to extent that Susan Gardner has declared in mock exasperation: Hasn't enough been said? (22). My answer is a very serious no. This essay considers what has not been said because of its very familiarity. In short, colonial tropes of savagery, slavery and barbarity, and orientalist tropes of eastern harem and figure of sultan, are figures in text that articulate wider social anxieties over settler subjects, class orders and hegemonic gender relations. In other words, My Brilliant Career is far-fetched, not so much in its unlikeliness, but because it brings from afar remotely connected figures that found expression in settler vernacular for purposes other than securing and superintending autochthonous populations happened on by Europeans in course of uncertain colonial contacts. However, together with figure of Australian Girl, these tropes do serve as means by which flexible ideological work of colonial economies is represented and executed. They deviously determine to recognize and fix identity of others--the Irish and Aborigines in particular--and shore up hegemony of atrophying class structures. These figures express what is otherwise unpresentable, and my concern here is to make these tropes speak to what has hitherto been silent. Franklin's text purports to record first years of Sybylla Melvyn's life from childhood to young womanhood in form of a fictive autobiography. Until age of nine, when her father decided to sell stations and buy a small farm named Possum Gully, Sybylla's childhood was spent between family's Bruggabrong and Bin Bin stations, and Caddagat station where her grandmother lived in New South Wales. However, droughts and depressions of 1890s Australia, which destabilized governments and industries, influence Richard Melvyn's failure, and he quickly succumbs to the influence of liquor (22). The full force of heavy hand of poverty (27) is then endured by his children and his wife, Lucy, who is said to have an aristocratic lineage that may be traced to of depraved old pirates who pillaged England with William Conqueror (5). In contrast, Melvyn is said to boast of nothing beyond a grandfather (5). This apparent decline from swelldom to peasantism of Melvyn settler family is one of major interests of text (25). The decline prompts Sybylla to move from her materially impoverished family at Possum Gully to Caddagat station, where she lives briefly with her maternal grandmother and aunt before her mother orders her to work as a governess for a nouveau riche Irish family, M'Swats at Barney's Gap, to repay debts her father owes Mr. M'Swat. The text ends following her rejection of a proposal of marriage by Harold Beecham, a leader of swelldom among squattocracy up country (73), (1)--and her return to her impecunious family. Since time of its publication--and it is not incidental that 1901 was year in which Australia was proclaimed a federated nation--commentators have been concerned with identifying and celebrating My Brilliant Career as a founding narrative of nationhood. Indeed, in conventional historiographies of Australia, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries conventionally mark subjunctive mood, to borrow Terry Eagleton's phrase, of nationalist appeals against imperial rule over settler populations in colonies (25). These protests often produced and privileged ideas of mateship and freedom, which 'Lone Hand' figure of bushman represented, and an aesthetic preference for realism. …" @default.
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• W2988805227 title "Colonial Displacements: Another Look at Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career" @default.
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