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• W4385061111 abstract "Queer Desire and the Anthropological Imagination:Randolph Stow and Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands Ellen Smith (bio) Australian writer Randolph Stow arrived in New Guinea's Trobriand Islands in 1959 with Bronislaw Malinowski's Trobriand ethnographies under his arm: Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Coral Gardens and their Magic and The Sexual Life of Savages. The 24-year-old was a Cadet Patrol Officer for the Australian colonial administration in New Guinea. Stow had already published three novels, one of which, To the Islands, had won the Miles Franklin, Australia's most prestigious award for fiction. However, now he was an aspiring anthropologist and had completed the first year of an anthropology degree at the University of Sydney. Seven months later Stow had a nervous breakdown. He was taken to Port Moresby hospital and then flown back to Australia. Afterwards, he gave up on anthropology, instead making his life as a writer.1 Stow would go on to become one of the most important figures of what David Carter calls antipodean modernism.2 Stow, however, never went after the middlebrow like the early twentieth-century antipodean modernist publications that Carter has excavated. Rather, his work is associated with that of figures like Patrick White who, in the midcentury period, moved the Australian novel away from its social realist origins towards a densely intertextual and myth laden sensibility which always harkened back to the high modernist moment. Although he only spent seven months in the Trobriand Islands, much of Stow's writing is about this time and place, what he saw and what happened to him there.3 Hovering over all of it is the [End Page 21] figure of Malinowski, the great Polish ethnographer who visited the Trobriand Islands from 1915–16 and then 1917–18. Malinowski's Trobriand ethnographies are often credited with ushering in the era of modern anthropology and redefining the role of field work in ethnographical research.4 Stow's understanding of Trobriand myth and society and his interest in anthropology were fundamentally shaped by Malinowski's ethnographies and his efforts to write about the Trobriand Islands were always in dialogue with the great ethnographer. Ultimately Stow's writing would seek to question Malinowski's authority and at the core of this response was the difficult place of Stow's queer body in the ethnographic field. There has been a small amount of work done on Stow's engagement with Malinowski. In particular, Helen Tiffin published an influential essay at the height of postcolonial literary studies, reading Visitants, Stow's major novel about the Trobriand Islands, as writing back to Malinowski's ethnographies and Conrad's Heart of Darkness in order to unmask … authoritative discourses.5 This reading works to establish Stow's postcolonial credentials as a writer of the former colonizing culture (Tiffin, Colonial Pretexts, 221). However, it can only do this by limiting its attention to one particular novel and underemphasizing the deep and extraordinarily personal investment Stow had in Malinowski. Stow's lifelong interest in anthropology and the personal trauma of the time he spent in the Trobriand Islands have become more possible to grasp since the National Library of Australia acquired the Stow collection in 2010, which contains substantial writings and ephemera from Stow's time in the Trobriand Islands. While this archive is the basis of Suzanne Falkiner's recent biography of Stow, it does not specifically consider Stow's relationship to Malinowski. This essay draws on this archive and on three little known short stories that queer Trobriand myths, in order to offer more detailed accounts of Stow's response to Malinowski and of Stow's time in the ethnographic field. In his diary, notes, and in a series of literary reworkings of this experience from the 1960s, Stow questions Malinowski's authority and the authority of those texts that were researched by Malinowski on the very same ground. Central to Stow's loss of faith in Malinowski were a series of encounters with Trobrianders themselves that would ultimately become the basis of his queer rewriting of a series of Trobriand myths. In the history of anthropology, the publication of Malinowski's diaries in 1967 is often seen as..." @default.
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• W4385061111 title "Queer Desire and the Anthropological Imagination: Randolph Stow and Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands" @default.
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