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2020, Eighteenth-Century Studies
My book examines a range of Robert Southey's writing to explore the relationship between Romantic literature and colonial politics during the expansion of Britain's second empire. This study draws upon a range of interdisciplinary materials to consider the impact of his work upon nineteenth-century views of empire. It also considers the writing of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Russell Mitford and James Montgomery.
2010 •
This article examines political dimensions of the train metaphor in selected Southern African poems, some of them in English translation. Exploring work by Mongane Serote, B.W. Vilakazi, Demetrius Segooa, Phedi Tlhobolo, Thami Mseleku, Jeremy Cronin, Alan Lennox-Short, Anthony Farmer, Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya, Abduraghiem Johnstone and Mondli Gwala, the argument shows some of the ways in which the technological character of trains and railways is made to carry a message of political insurrection and revolution. The author shows that the political potential of the railway metaphor builds on the general response to railways evident in poems indebted to traditional African praise poetry. The article also demonstrates that political contention within different strands of the Southern African liberation movement could also find expression using the railway metaphor.
The French Australian Review
'Convict Suffering and Salvation in New Caledonia and Australia: The Life and Writing of French Bagnard-Poet Julien de Sanary,' The French Australian Review, 65 (2019), pp. 23-47.2019 •
This article offers a contextualised analysis of the published writing of the French convict-poet Julien de Sanary. Transported from France to the penal colony in New Caledonia in 1881, Sanary spent almost forty years of his life incarcerated in the archipelago before his case was taken up by an Australian woman, Wolla Meranda, who successfully petitioned for his release in 1920. Here I offer the first extended study of Sanary’s life and work, and provide the first ever translation of Sanary’s poetry into English. I discuss the meaning of the act of writing for the French convict and provide an analysis of some of the major themes of his poetry. In addition I point out the greater significance of Sanary’s life and poetry to the histories of New Caledonia and Australia as European settler colonies, arguing that his experiences and relationship with Meranda are illustrative of a prevailing trope in the early twentieth century concerning the backwardness of New Caledonia as a European settler colony relative to Australia.
2015 •
Although Australian indigenous poetry is often overtly polemical and politically committed, any reading which analyzes it as mere propaganda is too narrow to do it justice. By presenting the verse of Alf Taylor collected in Singer Songwriter (1992) and Winds (1994) and discussing it in the context of the wider social and cultural milieu of the author, my essay aims to show the thematic richness of indigenous poetic expression. Indigenous poets have, on the one hand, undertaken the responsibility to strive for social and political equality and foster within their communities the very important concept that indigenous peoples can survive only as a community and a nation (McGuiness). On the other hand, they have produced powerful self-revelatory accounts of their own mental and emotional interior, which urges us to see their careers in a perspective much wider than that of social chroniclers and rebels.
Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 51, Number 4, pp. 748-751 (Review)
Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies by Jason R. Rudy (review)2018 •
In this essay I argue that Heaney uses the figure of the neighbour to examine questions of otherness and cultural difference and their relationship to history and politics. The neighbour is of course a figure that has played a central role in Western philosophy and theology for centuries, from the Gospels and Kant to Freud and Lacan. It is also a concept to which Western poetry often returns, particularly in the work of Herbert, Clare, Eliot, and Auden. Heaney too belongs to this tradition, in that his oeuvre contains many poems which consider the relationship between neighbours, and do so in ways profoundly suggestive for consideration of the relationship between historical events, social structures, cultural difference, and psychic affect. In my essay I argue that Heaney sketches a profoundly materialist conception of subjectivity in its relationship with the Other. In doing so, I contrast Heaney's treatment of the neighbour, with its emphasis on questions of politics and locality, to the treatment of the neighbour in the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
2024 •
Journal of Material Culture
T-shaped craft researchers' contribution in transdisciplinary research projectsLa investigación Social. Cuaderno metodológico.
La investigación Social. Cuaderno metodológico.2017 •
Computers in Human Behavior
Does a prosocial decision in video games lead to increased prosocial real-life behavior? The impact of reward and reasoning2018 •
Nuclear Engineering and Design
A multi-scale and multi-physics simulation methodology with the state-of-the-art tools for safety analysis in light water reactors applied to a turbine trip scenario (PART I)2019 •
De winkel van de weduwe Bos in Amerongen
De winkel van de weduwe Bos in Amerongen2024 •
Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. …
Ferns: a palaeoclimatic significant component of the Cretaceous flora from Livingston Island, Antarctica2001 •
Physiotherapy Quarterly
Core stability in adolescent swimmers with swimmer’s shoulder syndrome2021 •
1988 •
Ampera: A Research Journal on Politics and Islamic Civilization
Partisipasi Politik Terhadap Isu-Isu Kontemporer (Studi Kasus Mahasiswa di Kota Palembang)2019 •
2012 •
XL Convegno di Ricerche Templari
Le controversie dei templari durante il pontificato di Onorio III2023 •