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Dokument 1.Pdf Spatial Belonging: Approaching Aboriginal Australian Spaces in Contemporary Fiction Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie des Fachbereiches 05 der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen vorgelegt von: Lisa Bach aus Frankfurt am Main 2019 Dekan: Prof. Dr. Thomas Möbius 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein Tag der Disputation: 5. Mai 2020 Versicherung über selbstständiges Verfassen der Arbeit Hiermit versichere ich, dass diese Dissertation von mir persönlich verfasst ist und dass ich keinerlei fremde Hilfe in Anspruch genommen habe. Ebenso versichere ich, dass diese Arbeit oder Teile daraus weder von mir selbst noch von anderen als Leistungsnachweis andernorts eingereicht wurden. Wörtliche oder sinngemäße Übernahmen aus anderen Schriften und Veröffentlichungen in gedruckter oder elektronischer Form sind gekennzeichnet. Sämtliche Sekundärliteratur und sonstige Quellen sind nachgewiesen und in der Bibliographie aufgeführt. Das Gleiche gilt für graphische Darstellungen und Bilder sowie für alle Internet- Quellen. Frankfurt am Main, 5. Juni 2019 ........................................................ Unterschrift Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1 1 Putting the Project on the Map 3 1.1 Aboriginal Spatiality Matters: Introducing Field of Research and Epistemological Interests 6 1.2 Locating Literary Representations of Aboriginal Spatiality: Presenting the Current State of Research 18 1.3 Aboriginal Literatures from a European Perspective 23 1.4 From Indigenous Australian Spatiality to Aboriginal Space as a Form of Belonging: Identifying Objectives and Research Questions 25 1.5 Corpus Selection or Tracing Representations of Spatiality in Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction 27 1.6 Structuring Space and Spatialising Structure 37 2 Narratives of Land: Historicising Aboriginal Politics of Space 40 3 Indigenous Australian Space as a Form of Belonging 59 3.1 Conceptualising Belonging 59 3.2 Identifying Spatial Manifestations of Aboriginal Belonging 70 3.3 Indigenous Australian Space as a Form of Belonging: A Working Definition 89 3.4 Aboriginal Spatial Belonging and Non-Indigenous Approaches to Space 95 4 Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction as a Means of Spatial Indigenous World- making 101 4.1 The Worldmaking Potential of Indigenous Australian Narratives of Space 101 4.2 The Narrative Structure of Aboriginal Spatial Belonging 111 4.3 The Narrative Diversity of Aboriginal Spatial Belonging 120 5 Conflicted Belonging: Reading Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance from a Spatial-Narratological Perspective 124 5.1 Introducing the Methodological Framework 124 5.2 Reading Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance from a Spatial-Narratological Perspective 130 6 Balanced Belonging: Reading Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria from an Ecocritical Perspective 158 6.1 Introducing the Methodological Framework 159 6.2 Reading Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria from an Ecocritical Perspective 165 7 Urban Belonging: Reading Anita Heiss’s Not Meeting Mr Right from an Intersectional Perspective 191 7.1 Introducing the Methodological Framework 192 7.2 Reading Anita Heiss’s Not Meeting Mr Right from an Intersectional Perspective 198 8 Conclusion: Sketching the Future Relevance of Aboriginal Australian Spatial Belonging for Literary and Indigenous Research 225 9 Bibliography 233 9.1 Primary Literature 233 9.2 Secondary Literature 233 9.3 Further Online Sources 249 Acknowledgements From the very first ideas to its final completion, this study has accompanied me for more than seven years. This long and exciting journey would not have come to a successful end without the great help and encouragement of so many people who supported me along the way. First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet. With his feedback and his excellent conceptual and methodological support, he was a constant source of advice, and I am particularly grateful for his assistance in narrowing down and framing the contents of this thesis. Furthermore, I would like to express my gratitude to my second supervisor, Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein, who graciously welcomed me in Potsdam and supported me with his superb insights into Australian cultures and the literatures of its Aboriginal peoples. Moreover, I would like to thank my fellow members of the International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP) for helping me find the focus and structure of this study, particularly Dr. Catharina Löffler and Dr. Julia Michael for their on-going support in many different ways. The IPP also funded an extended research stay in Australia, for which I am especially grateful for. Thanks also go to Assoc. Prof. Anne Brewster from the University of New South Wales in Sydney as well as Chiara Gamboz and Dr Benjamin Miller, whom I met in Australia and who provided me with invaluable insights into indigenous Australian literatures and helped me to finalise my primary text corpus. Special thanks go to Dr. Katharina Luh. Her great motivation and influence constituted one of the major sources of inspiration to start writing this thesis at all. Last but not least, no words can express my gratitude for the never-ending help and motivation of my family and friends, who supported the completion of this study in every possible way. 1 Danksagung Von der ersten Idee bis zur Fertigstellung hat mich die vorliegende Arbeit mehr als sieben Jahre begleitet. Diese lange und aufregende Reise wäre nicht möglich gewesen ohne die Hilfe vieler Menschen, die mich auf diesem Weg unterstützt haben. Ein besonderer Dank geht an meinen Betreuer Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet. Sein Feedback und seine großartige Hilfe waren eine entscheidende Unterstützung bei der inhaltlichen und methodologischen Konzeptionierung meiner Arbeit. Weiterhin möchte ich mich bei Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein bedanken, der mich herzlich in Potsdam aufgenommen und mit seinem Wissen zu den Kulturen und Literaturen der australischen Aborigines entscheidend zur Gestaltung meines Promotionsprojektes beigetragen hat. Bedanken möchte ich mich auch bei den Mitgliedern meines Promotionsjahrganges am Internationalen Promotionsprogramm Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften (IPP), deren wertvolle Hinweise mich bei der Themenfindung und -strukturierung besonders unterstützt haben, v.a. Dr. Catharina Löffler und Dr. Julia Michael für ihre vielfältigen Hilfestellungen. Das IPP hat mir außerdem einen ausgedehnten Forschungsaufenthalt in Australien ermöglicht, wofür ich besonders dankbar bin. Danke auch an Assoc. Prof. Anne Brewster von der University of New South Wales in Sydney sowie Chiara Gamboz und Dr Benjamin Miller, die ich in Australien treffen durfte und deren Hinweise mir die Auswahl der zu analysierenden Romane maßgeblich erleichterten. Ganz besonders danken möchte ich Dr. Katharina Luh, deren Motivation und Inspiration eine der wichtigsten Einflüsse für die Entstehung dieser Arbeit waren. Zuletzt geht der größte Dank an meine Familie und Freunde. Mit ihrer unendlichen Hilfe und Geduld haben sie die Entstehung dieser Arbeit auf jedem nur denkbaren Weg unterstützt und ihre Fertigstellung erst ermöglicht. 2 1 Putting the Project on the Map Imagining a broad map of Western academia, one can find a plethora of different disciplines, objects of research and possible approaches to these topics. Although all of these items are somehow interrelated with one another, their ultimate overlap is constituted by one specific element: knowledge. The construction, circulation and continuous development of knowledge is the starting as well as the terminal point, the alpha and omega of Western academic thinking. Nevertheless, with its focus on Western academia this map is spatially limited, as it only covers the territory of the West – but what about the rest? Where are non-Western academic traditions and disciplines to be found? And in what way are the West and the rest connected to each other in scholarly terms? These fundamental reflections on the overall design and status of Western scholarship mark the beginning of the following study, which sets out to approach Aboriginal manifestations of spatial knowledge with the help of contemporary indigenous Australian novels while being situated within non-indigenous, European academic contexts. In order to carry out this endeavour in an adequate manner1, it is crucial to acknowledge, first of all, that [t]he European world view tends to separate the spiritual, natural and human domains whose characteristics and attributes are ever open to challenge, debate and reinterpretation. In this lies [an] important distinction between the two cultural traditions as expressed in attitudes towards knowledge. In the Aboriginal world view, knowledge is an extension of the cosmic order and comprises the accumulated wisdom of the group since time immemorial, handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. (Gostin/Chong 1994: 123) While Western perceptions of the world clearly categorise knowledge, Aboriginal peoples understand their existence as related to a more holistic system of knowledge free of clear-cut classifications. Therefore, this basic difference is one of the fundamental concepts that has to be kept in mind when examining indigenous knowledge, here in relation to literary representations of spatiality, from a non-indigenous point of view. It is also important to see these differences not as a legitimation for hierarchies or as an obstacle, but to question ways in which it is possible to approach Aboriginal knowledge nonetheless. Zooming in on the cultural context
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