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卷 2 ， 期 2 ， 2025
- 摘要：In the first half of the twentieth century, expatriate writers from former settler colonies such as Australia and New Zealand lived in Europe and portrayed liminal foreign spaces in their works. Their characters often exhibit ambiguous national identities, elusive female subjectivity, and fragmented existence regarding both their personal lives and social engagement. By analyzing New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield’s short stories “An Indiscreet Journey” and “Je ne parle pas français” and Australian writer Christina Stead’s novel The Beauties and Furies, this paper explores the metaphoric literary space shaped by their own expatriate experience in France. As a temporary destination for both writers as they moved to the Northern Hemisphere, France serves as a significant geographical catalyst for their modernist experimentation. Focusing on the fluctuating female subjectivity, transient national identities, and individualized modes of engaging with the historical discourse in these works, this paper reveals how Australian and New Zealand women writers contribute to expatriate modernist literature in ways distinct from Anglo-American and European literary modernism.关键词：Australian and New Zealand women writers;expatriate modernism;France;Katherine Mansfield;Christina Stead30|4|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：Kim Scott reveals in his works that in the colonial context of Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries, scientific racism constructed a systematic power structure that oppressed Aboriginal people. The colonial authorities, under the guise of eugenics, carried out racial purification and attempted to achieve complete conquest of Aboriginal communities through forced racial mixing, cultural assimilation, and land plundering. In Benang: From the Heart, Scott examines colonial violence in the form of a family saga and through the depiction of the fates of five generations of the Nyoongar people in Western Australia. He reveals that Aboriginal people regard natural selection, local knowledge, and mutualistic memory as ecological choices to resist colonial hegemony, indicating that the ecological choices of Indigenous people do not constitute passive responses to colonial oppression but reflect active survival wisdom rooted in blood ties, land attachment, and spiritual traditions, essentially a commitment to the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. This paper takes the “blood community”, “geographical community”, and “spiritual community” proposed by Ferdinand Tönnies in Community and Society as the theoretical framework to examine how Indigenous people in the novel achieve survival through three interwoven ecological choices: the blood community uses natural selection to oppose racial eugenics; the geographical community uses local knowledge to counter resource plundering; and the spiritual community combats cultural extinction with mutualistic memory. At a time when global Indigenous issues have drawn much attention, this novel is not only a literary retelling of Australia’s colonial history, but also contains universal implications for reconstructing the relationships between humans and nature, and between modernity and tradition.关键词：Kim Scott;Benang: From the Heart;ecological choice;natural selection;local knowledge;mutualistic memory14|3|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：Australian writer Tim Winton is keen on portraying male characters with different sorts of masculinities, presenting individual differences among men as well as the plurality of masculine identities. From the perspective of personal history, the identity construction of Winton’s male characters is closely related to their traumatic experiences. Trauma serves as one of the factors that shape their marginal masculinity, while igniting their desire to seek deep masculinity. Moreover, it provides the medium for them to reflect upon the reconstruction of spiritual masculinity. A systematic analysis of the relationship between masculinities and trauma in Winton’s fiction helps to grasp the motivation of his subversive writing of masculinity and femininity, understand the possible path for the transformation of masculinity in the current era, and reflect on the ontological proposition of “what it means to be a man”.关键词：Tim Winton;trauma;marginal masculinity;deep masculinity;spiritual masculinity15|5|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：Hsu-Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon is often viewed as a coming-of-age novel centered on diasporic narratives. It not only focuses on the memories of first-generation immigrants but also delves into the sense of belonging of the second generation—these two dimensions are continuously intertwined between Chinese diasporic culture and Australian culture. The “future” envisioned by second-generation immigrants in Australia is inherently paradoxical: on the one hand, as inheritors of their parents’ dreams, they are expected to perpetuate family memories and become “replicas” of their parents; on the other hand, they are eager to break free from these constraints and forge new identities. They must live within their own time and space, rewriting their parents’ stories. Although these new narratives bear the imprint of old records, they are also reshaped by multiple forces both inside and outside the family. For the second-generation characters in Behind the Moon, establishing a future-oriented identity is far more urgent and necessary than inheriting an old one based on memories of a homeland culture.关键词：diaspora;transgenerational memory;future-oriented identity;migration culture15|5|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Set in World War II, the novel depicts Allied prisoners of war, with Dorrigo Evans as the central figure, being forced to build the Thai-Burma Railway for the Japanese Army, as well as the tragic romantic entanglement between Dorrigo and Amy, his uncle’s wife. This article argues that Flanagan adopts a narrative perspective that subverts official historical narratives, mainstream perceptions and established facts. By deconstructing Australian nationalism, Eurocentrism and the myth of the war hero, Flanagan advocates a renewed interpretation of history, warfare and human nature.关键词：Richard Flanagan;The Narrow Road to the Deep North;Man Booker Prize;deconstruction;war literature12|1|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：Original Face is one of the representative works by Australian author Nicholas Jose, focusing on a murder case that weaves together the life stories of multiple Chinese-Australians. The novel examines the construction of Chinese identity in fiction, exploring how Jose deliberately shapes images of Chinese people under Orientalist discourse to depict their identity struggles. By depicting Chinese characters’ steadfastness in cultural roots, the novel showcases their journey toward equal integration into Australian society, revealing a transcendent identity beyond the East-West opposition of “Orientalism”, which reflects Jose’s “de-Orientalization” concept.关键词：Nicholas Jose;Original Face;de-Orientalization;cultural identity12|2|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：In 1944-1945, Australian war correspondent George Johnston witnessed the large-scale refugee migration in the southwest of China. Drawing on this firsthand experience, he wrote the novel The Far Road, which explores the existential predicament of humanity. This paper intends to investigate how the novel, through Meredith’s uncanny journey across China, provides a profound literary response to and transcendence of Sartre’s existential proposition that “hell is other people.” The study reveals that Johnston adapts the narrative structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy—“Hell, Purgatory, Paradise”—into three metaphorical arenas of modern crisis: Guilin, Liujiang, and Liuzhou. The uncanny functions as a theoretical framework that illuminates Western subjects’ existential anxiety in cross-cultural encounters and their ethical transformation. Through its depiction of the materialization of victims’ remains, the alienation of humanity, and the futility of redemption, the novel transcends Sartre’s pessimistic discourse, calls for ethical responsibility grounded in the recognition of the Other, and offers literary insights into inter-subjective relations in the era of globalization.关键词：The Far Road;George Johnston;existentialism;the uncanny;ethics of the Other36|4|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：Leah Purcell’s novel The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2019) is a rewriting of Henry Lawson’s canonical short story of the same title. By reimagining the wife as a mixed-race Indigenous woman and introducing Indigenous characters such as Yadaka, the novel exposes the long-obscured female predicaments and racial violence embedded in Australia’s colonial history. Drawing on Aristotle’s tragic elements and engaging with Ato Quayson’s theorization of postcolonial tragedy, this article argues that Molly’s “hamartia” (tragic flaw) does not stem from individual deficiency but is produced by frontier violence in the Australian bush. Her “anagnorisis” (discovery) of her Indigenous identity unfolds in parallel with “peripeteia” (narrative reversal), revealing a profound tension between Molly’s ethical choice and the external colonial environment. Struggling to survive amid continued “pathos” (suffering), Molly ultimately meets a tragic death within the framework of colonial law. The incorporation of Indigenous Dreaming transforms her death into spiritual continuity and ongoing resistance; however, genuine “catharsis” (purgation of the emotions) ultimately depends on the realization of social justice. Through such a mode of postcolonial tragedy, the novel lays bare the historical tragedy of Australian Indigenous people and foregrounds their enduring anti-colonial struggle.关键词：Leah Purcell;The Drover’s Wife;tragedy;postcolonial tragedy;Indigenous Dreaming30|1|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：The Yield by Tara June Winch is often read as an Australian Indigenous novel concerned with colonial trauma, language revitalization, and Indigenous identity. Existing studies interpret the text primarily within the framework of Australia’s inland geography and colonial history, paying less attention to its connections within Oceania. Drawing on Epeli Hauʻofa’s concept of “Our Sea of Islands”, this paper approaches The Yield from a decolonial perspective that emphasizes connectivity rather than isolation. It argues that the novel presents a worldview of profound interconnectedness through its depictions of language recovery, return to the land, intergenerational memory, and water imagery. These narrative strategies resonate strongly with other Oceanic Indigenous understandings of a connected and expansive world articulated by Hauʻofa. By adopting this theoretical framework, the article seeks to move beyond land-centered interpretations and to situate Australian Indigenous literature within a wider Oceanic network of shared colonial experiences and decolonial practices.关键词：Australian Indigenous literature;The Yield;Our Sea of Islands;Oceania;decolonial perspective14|2|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：Domestic Noir, a rapidly emerging genre of literary fiction in the 21st century, centers its narratives around the highly private space of the family. It introduces crime, suspense, and ethical critique into intimate relationships, systematically revealing the hidden yet structured gender power dynamics and ethical disorder within modern households. Australian author Liane Moriarty stands as one of the genre’s defining voices. This paper focuses on the intrinsic connection between “ethical dilemmas” and “narratives of subjectivity” in Moriarty’s novels. It explores how she depicts the dissolution and reconstruction of female subjectivity through the disciplinary mechanisms and psychological manipulation inherent in the domestic sphere.关键词：Liane Moriarty;Domestic Noir;ethical dilemmas;narratives of subjectivity9|1|0更新时间：2026-08-11
- 摘要：In his mid-career representative work, The Solid Mandala, Patrick White conveys a cosmopolitan standpoint with Oriental empathy through presenting an immigrant family’s self-authorship experiences in Australia. While portraying the Browns’ self-authoring trajectories centered around freedom, literary reputation, and totality respectively, White foregrounds Australia’s xenophobia, then discloses the fragmentation of immigrants’ cultural identity caused by the culturally antagonistic logic inherent in xenophobia, and subsequently presents cosmopolitan affective philosophy that incorporates Oriental cultural symbols as an effective method to alleviate xenophobia and construct cross-cultural emotional communities. While criticizing Australia’s exclusiveness, White conveys his expectation for a human community that transcends geographical, ethnic and cultural boundaries from an Australian perspective.关键词：Patrick White;The Solid Mandala;self-authorship;xenophobia;cosmopolitanism10|1|0更新时间：2026-08-11
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