Hanging Between two Worlds - The Exiled Self in David Malouf s The Conversations at Curlow Creek E-Book
Melanie Jürgens
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- Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7 (A-), Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (English Seminar), course: Hauptseminar: Postcolonial Texts from the Terranglia, language: English, abstract: [...]The main focus of the following paper will lie on the mental consequences of being in exile, mainly portrayed in the protagonist - or main consciousness- Michael Adair. Furthermore I will propose to consider the notions of estrangement that can be found in Adair as well as in Carney, the differences between life in their home country Ireland and their new (temporary) home Australia from the colonial point of view.
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Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Sommersemester 2002 Englisches Seminar
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The first part of the title of this paper is borrowed from a review by Andrew Riemer of David Malouf’s novel7KH&RQYHUVDWLRQVDW&XUORZ&UHHNwhichappeared in the6\GQH\0RUQLQJ+HUDOGshortlybefore the novel itself was
published in 1996. In a laconic and humorous way it puts the synopsis of the novel into a nutshell, the ‘hanging’ being both a literal one as well as a metaphorical one.
David Malouf’s eighth and latest novel to-date,7KH&RQYHUVDWLRQVDW&XUORZ &UHHN,again deals with the protagonists’ displacement from his home country
and straying into the unknown. Similar to two of Malouf’s previous novels,-RKQQR1975)and7KH*UHDW:RUOG(1990),the main characters are involved
in forced or willing voyages from their home country into an unfamiliar environment. Another thread that was already started by Malouf in$Q ,PDJLQDU\/LIH(1978) is continued: feelings of exile beyond the edge of
civilisation, life between two worlds. The exploration of psychological feelings of exile is a recurrent motif in the works of Malouf and in the&RQYHUVDWLRQV
for the first time it is exile from Ireland that is picked out as the main topic. To sum up the novel in brief: The year is 1827; Michael Adair, an Irish officer in the British army, comes to Curlow Creek, New South Wales, Australia, to supervise the execution of Daniel Carney, an Irish convict-turnedrevolutionary. Carney roamed the area with a group of bushrangers under the leadership of a man called Dolan who was killed by troopers. Adair and Carney converse throughout the night, with Adair’s secret ambition being to find out if Dolan was actually his long lost stepbrother Fergus Connellan who is said to have been seen in New South Wales. The driving force behind finding Fergus is Adair’s love for Virgilia, the daughter of the neighbouring landowner back in Ireland, who is in love with Fergus and wants to find out what became of him. One day, Fergus just left Ireland and had not been seen
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