A Post-Colonial Ontology? Tim Winton’s The Riders and the Challenge to White-Settler Identity Mc Credden, Lyn 2020, A Post-Colonial Ontology? Tim Winton’s The Riders and the Challenge to White-Settler Identity, Humanities, vol. 9, no. 3, Special Issue: Religion and Postcolonial Literature, Art, and Music, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.3390/h9030095. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title A Post-Colonial Ontology? Tim Winton’s The Riders and the Challenge to White-Settler Identity Author(s) Mc Credden, Lyn orcid.org/0000-0003-3956-0964 Journal name Humanities Volume number 9 Issue number 3 Season Special Issue: Religion and Postcolonial Literature, Art, and Music Article ID 95 Start page 1 End page 9 Total pages 9 Publisher MDPI AG Place of publication Basel, Switzerland Publication date 2020 ISSN 2076-0787 Keyword(s) post-colonial white-settler identity spiritual Tim Winton ontology Belonging and (Un)belonging Summary Through a reading of Australian non-Indigenous author Tim Winton and his novel The Riders, this essay seeks to shake to the very roots white-settler understandings of identity and belonging. The essay treads respectfully into the field of Australian identity, recognizing that Indigenous people’s ancient and sacred relationship with country and the formation of treaties with the nation, are now rightfully central on national agendas. However, this essay asks the following question: what are the ontological grounds upon which respectful dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians might occur, after such violent and traumatic history? The essay explores the possible grounds for an evolving dialogue, one which will be necessarily intersectional: (post)colonial, spiritual/ontological and material. Further, the essay identifies “spirituality” and “ontology” as broad denominators for religion, speculating on a (post)colonial ontology which centers on home and (un)belonging. White-settler Australians, this essay argues, must confront deep ontological issues of brokenness if they are to take part meaningfully in future dialogues. Scully, the protagonist of The Riders, finds himself far from home and stripped of almost all the markers of his former identity: as Australian, as husband, and as a man in control of his life. The novel probes (un)belonging for this individual descendent of colonial Australia, as trauma engulfs him. Further, it will be argued that The Riders prefigures the wider, potentially positive aspects of a post-colonial ontology of (un)belonging, as white-settler Australians come to enunciate a broken history, and ontological instability. Such recognition, this essay argues, is a preliminary step towards a fuller post-colonial dialogue in Australia. Language eng DOI 10.3390/h9030095 Indigenous content off Field of Research 200502 Australian Literature (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30141252 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 31 Aug 2020, 11:24:58 EST Mon, 31 Aug 2020, 11:30:51 EST Tue, 01 Sep 2020, 05:00:37 EST Tue, 01 Sep 2020, 06:03:43 EST Tue, 01 Sep 2020, 09:56:37 EST Tue, 06 Oct 2020, 05:03:01 EST Tue, 06 Oct 2020, 11:34:21 EST Tue, 06 Oct 2020, 11:36:16 EST Tue, 06 Oct 2020, 11:38:08 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 69 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 31 Aug 2020, 11:30:51 EST

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