Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019) 'The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55 (1). pp. 48-65.
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Abstract
While Anton Chekhov’s influence on Katherine Mansfield is widely acknowledged, the two writers’ settler colonial aesthetics have not been brought into systematic comparison. Yet Chekhov’s chronicle of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East parallels in important ways Mansfield’s near-contemporaneous account of colonial life in New Zealand. Both writers were concerned with a specific variant of the colonial situation: settler colonialism, which prioritises appropriation of land over the governance of peoples. This essay considers the aesthetic strategies each writer developed for capturing that milieu in their travel writings within the framework of the settler colonial aesthetics that has guided much anthropological engagement with endangered peoples.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Settler colonialism, Sakhalin, New Zealand, Siberia, Maori, Gilyak, Russian Empire |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 17449855 |
| Copyright Statement: | This is the version of the article accepted for publication in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55 (1). pp. 48-65 (2019, published by Taylor and Francis. Re-use is subject to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1511242 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2023 11:51 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/40478 |
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