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dc.contributor.authorLee, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-08T01:01:00Z
dc.date.available2018-01-08T01:01:00Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1444-3058
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14443058.2017.1380686
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/356053
dc.description.abstractThe expectation that a novel about a celebrity aviator will romanticise flight and glorify the pilot is a product of the mythologisation of aviation, which this essay understands is a response to the threat of technology and the alienating conditions of modernity. Roger McDonald’s novel Slipstream refuses to reproduce this mythology, expressing a literary aspiration to use the form of the modern novel to explore the entanglement of the subject under the conditions of postcolonial modernity. My argument will develop through three parts. The first section will explore the mythologisation of aviation as a symptom of modernity. The second will examine the ways in which the novel uses its modernist form to call into question the celebrity of the aviator and the spectacle of flight. This part of my argument is indebted to the critique by German philosopher Martin Heidegger of the technological mode of Being. Finally, I take up the postcolonial implications of the Heideggerian critique in a country in which many of modernism’s standard antidotes to the problems of its century are compromised by the legacies of colonialism.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto15
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Australian Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPostcolonial studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470213
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470502
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430302
dc.titleThe Beast in the Machine: Modernity, Aviation and the Legacies of Colonialism in Roger McDonald’s Slipstream
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2017 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Australian Studies on 16 Oct 2017, available online: 10.1080/14443058.2017.1380686
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gro.griffith.authorLee, Chris J.


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